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I feel Afghanistan has a very strong social fabric and sense of family... what I would like to do is encourage everybody in the country to appreciate more the role of women at home and outside. Rula Ghani

They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash! Rula Ghani

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I may not raise my voice a lot, I may not be very flashy, but I like to interact with people. Rula Ghani

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When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement. You fight unapologetically on the inside; that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have. Saikat Chakrabarti

You have to decide to create the society you want to create, and that's done through politics. Saikat Chakrabarti

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I don't know if it's a uniquely American thing, but I associate it that way. People get excited by this idea of, 'Let's come together and defeat this huge enemy through innovation, by solving this crisis.' I think that's motivating and inspiring. Saikat Chakrabarti

For background, Brand New Congress was created in the summer of 2016 with the goal of recruiting 400 candidates to run for Congress with a national campaign and a clear set of policies they would advocate for. It was an attempt to create, as per the name, a brand new Congress. Saikat Chakrabarti

It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our goals. Saikat Chakrabarti

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I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system. Saikat Chakrabarti

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I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us. Saikat Chakrabarti

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What the Bernie campaign showed us was that you could out-raise a well-funded opponent with grassroots donations, and you could out-voter-contact them, too. Saikat Chakrabarti

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People are realizing that the winning message is the progressive message. Saikat Chakrabarti

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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. Samantha Power

Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't. Samantha Power

The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests. Samantha Power

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Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.' Samantha Power

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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables? Samantha Power

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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it. Samantha Power

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism. Samantha Power

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