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
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
There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my… — 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
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Treat people kindly. When you are kind to somebody and I don't mean necessarily "buddy-buddy", just show kindness and consideration. Show that… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. In my experience, the people… — 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
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
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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