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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.
- Samantha Power
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#Me
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#Without
My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
- Samantha Power
#Diplomacy
#Human Being
#Human
#Style
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
- Samantha Power
#Broken
#Our Time
#Our
#Places
#Time
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
- Samantha Power
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#Good
#Happen
#Thought
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
- Samantha Power
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#Government
#History
#Space
#Trust
Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
- Samantha Power
#Business
#Legal
#Long
#Work
#World
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
- Samantha Power
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#Cities
#Country
#Famine
#Only
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
- Samantha Power
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#Human Rights
#Human
#Rights
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.
- Samantha Power
#Concentration
#More
#Potential
#Yourself
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
- Samantha Power
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#Catalyst
#Global
#Good
#Standing
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
- Samantha Power
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#Government
#Presence
#Protection
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
- Samantha Power
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#Out
#Pure
#Rarely
Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
- Samantha Power
#Change
#Community
#Future
#Good
#Turn
When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.
- Samantha Power
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#Fall
#Group
#Guilt
#Trying
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
- Samantha Power
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
- Samantha Power
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#Meetings
#People
#Process
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.
- Samantha Power
#Life
#Mind
#Performance
#Political
#Will
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
- Samantha Power
#Atrocities
#Best
#Future
#Know
#Who
Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
- Samantha Power
#Act
#Best
#Flaws
#Together
#Whatever
#World
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
- Samantha Power
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#Leadership
#Political
#Rights
All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.
- Samantha Power
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#Core
#Empathy
#Exercise
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