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Samantha Power


Irish
September 21, 1970
Public Servant
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.


Samantha Power
International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
Samantha Power
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
Samantha Power
Tags: Who Been Years
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
Samantha Power
Tags: Think Than Rather
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power
Tags: People Get Been
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
Samantha Power
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
Samantha Power
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.
Samantha Power
Tags: Hope Them Feel
In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
Samantha Power
Tags: Home Then Many
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.'
Samantha Power
When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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Tags: Science Me Just