Samantha Power Quotes

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

There is a middle ground between sitting on our hands and sending in the marines.

Foreign policy is like plumbing. You never notice it till it breaks and then all hell breaks loose.

Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

Great powers engage.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

Diplomacy and force are two sides of the same coin.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

Foreign policy does not mean guns and rifles, but utilizing all legitimate international means to convince others.

The policy of the United States in the Spanish war and since has given it a position of influence among the nations that it never had before.

UN administrators ... think that no problem in the world is too intractable to be solved by negotiation. These mandarins fail to grasp that men with guns do not respect men with nothing but flapping gums ... Just as the US Marine Corps breeds warriors, so the UN’s culture breeds conciliators.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

The reason that our policy and negotiations with North Korea have failed so badly that is sane people negotiating with crazy people.

Serbia must now be dealt with.