Samantha Power Quotes

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.

I've had just an amazing opportunity to serve with Gov. Branstad. Not all lieutenant governors have the opportunity to be as involved in the administration as I have had.

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

I also served on many government committees.

It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV. It's not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it's about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

White House staff are meant to coordinate and set policy, not carry it out.

If the first year of the Trump administration has made anything clear, it's that experience, knowledge, education and political wisdom matter tremendously. Governing is something else entirely from campaigning. And perhaps, most important, celebrities do not make excellent heads of state.

In terms of going into the West Wing, I will do whatever the president-elect and the vice president-elect - I worked with Mike Pence for 10 years - they believe is my best and highest use for them.

My responsibilities as the governor are more than my neighbor’s and my family.

I loved being governor. It’s like running your own little country.

I am possessed of two separate powers; the one in esse and the other in posse. I am Vice President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything. But I am President also of the Senate.

The civil servant, the general or admiral, the foreign service officer has no authority to make policy. The act only as servants to the government and therefore they must remain in line with the government policy that is established by those that have been elected by the people to set that policy.

I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.

The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step.

I served in two administrations very high up in the Justice Department.

Serving as Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor.

I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration.

It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.