The Education of an Idealist

by Samantha Power

I was never as disciplined as I intended to be, but early on, I learned to forgive myself.

President Johnson’s famous observation that a leader’s problem was not in “doing what’s right, but knowing what’s right.”

If you don’t savor moments like today, you won’t have the fuel you need to keep going. Take it from me.”

becoming a headline news story was causing me to exaggerate my own importance.

America was then one of only two high-income countries in the world that did not guarantee paid maternity leave.