With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We are not shrinking from talking to Saudis or anyone else in the region, but it is up to each nation in… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)....Yes the principles of the United Nations… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . .… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the… — 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
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made… — 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 Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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