Nikki Haley in The Washington Examiner

On Civil Rights: Women don't have more challenges, just different ones

"I don't think women have more challenges. They don't. I've never thought that. I think our challenges can be different, but I don't think we have more challenges," she says. "The frustrations, I think, are literally what every other woman goes through. Balancing your marriage and your kids and your finances and your work and wanting to really make people proud. Making sure your parents are okay. Loving the job you do and wanting to be great at it." Source: The Washington Examiner on Trump Cabinet Dec 13, 2018

On Foreign Policy: Helped broker U.N. sanctions on North Korea

According to former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Haley played a "central role" in brokering the U.N. sanctions on North Korea. "She has what we call strategic empathy," he says. "She's able to take problems from the perspective of others and then frame these problems from their perspective. What she was particularly adept at doing was convincing others why it was in their interest to join us." Source: The Washington Examiner on Trump Cabinet Dec 13, 2018

On Foreign Policy: Obama was wrong to abstain on Cuba's anti-US resolution

She is disdainful of where the United States was at the end of Obama's tenure. "For example, right before I came in, there was a Cuban-sponsored anti-American resolution." That would be the evergreen condemnation of the U.S. embargo of Cuba. In the fall of 2016, when the vote came up, "The United States abstained," Haley recounts, "It blamed America for all of Cuba's problems, and we just... abstained." Source: The Washington Examiner on Trump Cabinet Dec 13, 2018

On Principles & Values: Humbling to be a role model for girls and women

"Young girls and women come up and say something, and it's humbling but I get it," she tells me. "The reason I get it is because women balance so much and they try so hard to be great at everything, and it's not so much as they look up to me, but I think they see one of them doing it, too." Haley says, "We're doing the best we can and we know that there is someone out there looking at us as we do it, and we don't want to disappoint." Source: The Washington Examiner on Trump Cabinet Dec 13, 2018

On War & Peace: Condemned Russia for criticizing US over Syria response

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on his own people, an act Haley condemned as "a violation of all standards of morality." The Russian ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, began a meeting of the Security Council by criticizing the United States for making threats. "What is strange is that Russia is ignoring the real threat to international peace and security that has brought us all here, and it is ignoring its own unilateral responsibility for all of it," she said. Source: The Washington Examiner on Trump Cabinet Dec 13, 2018

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