Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.
Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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.
You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council.
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out.... It's perilous to look ahead and be like, "I'd like to be ambassador." I would never have gone to Bosnia or spent years writing about genocide. Do it on the basis of what you can learn.... It's like falling in love. Your whole dating life, you're thinking, On the one hand, on the other hand. Then you meet the right guy, and you're not in list-making mode; you're just with the person you're supposed to be with. Jobs are like that too.
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.
There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.
If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.
'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.
I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.
