Samantha Power Quotes

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

We have a failed state in Syria.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

Syria has become the great tragedy of the century—a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Libya is a huge disaster.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

We feel pain for every Syrian victim.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.

I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

War is not a thing one wants.

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.