The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and… — Colin Powell Copy Share
I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring… — Colin Powell Copy Share
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. — Colin Powell Copy Share
With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at… — Colin Powell Copy Share
There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them, success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty… — Colin Powell Copy Share
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. — Colin Powell Copy Share
We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed… — Colin Powell Copy Share
One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile… — Colin Powell Copy Share
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off. — Colin Powell Copy Share
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.… — Colin Powell Copy Share
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