Samantha Power Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Samantha Power quotes and sayings page 2 (writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 54 we have for her.
“Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.”
“I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.”
“The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.”
“One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.”
“No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.”
“The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.”
“The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.”
“When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.”
“There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.”
“My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.”
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