Samantha Power Quotes

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Modern young news consumers want not only to know what happened but why it happened.

I wake up angry every morning and start reading [the newspapers]. Then I'm furious.

We try and slow down the news.

I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

I believe that the way to justice is education.

I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

There's so much to consume that it's very easy to read a headline in the news outlets that you subscribe to that you maybe support and go 'This is how I feel.'

I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.

I usually get up early because I like the quiet time in the morning to have my coffee, and I look at the news of the day, and give myself a chance to wake up.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen to the morning news while you're in the shower, read the headlines as you are walking out the door, make sure you're keeping tabs on everything: the wars, the economy, the gossip, the natural disasters. . . But if you want the day ahead to be full of miracles, then spend some time each morning with God.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.

I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.