United states Quotes by Colin Powell

The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

— Colin Powell

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

— Colin Powell

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

— Colin Powell

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

— Colin Powell

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

— Colin Powell

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

— Colin Powell

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

— Colin Powell

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

I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the…

— Colin Powell

The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual…

— Colin Powell

Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made…

— Colin Powell

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades,…

— Colin Powell

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we…

— Colin Powell

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

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of…

— Colin Powell

It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war…

— Colin Powell

It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because…

— Colin Powell

The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration…

— Colin Powell

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

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for…

— Colin Powell

It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the…

— Colin Powell