Samantha Power Quotes & Sayings
54 most famous Samantha Power quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a Irish writer ..
“I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.”
“When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.”
“History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.”
“Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.”
“We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.”
“Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'”
“I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.”
“American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.”
“Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.”
“Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.”
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