Samantha Power

The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.

All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.

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.

Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.