Colin Powell Quotes
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There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
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I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.
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Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war Vietnam, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
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We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seeking.
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This may sound a little improper, but when the Vice President and I are alone it's Colin and Dick.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.
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Dear Senator Leahy, thank you for your recent letter asking my views on the proposed flag protection amendment. I love our flag, our Constitution and our country with a love that has no bounds. I defended all three for 35 years as a soldier and was willing to give my life in their defense.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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You break it, you own it.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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I think he is a transformational figure. He is a new generation coming into the world - onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I'll be voting for Senator Barack Obama.
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That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.