Want Quotes by Colin Powell

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

— Colin Powell

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

— Colin Powell

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

— Colin Powell

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote,

— Colin Powell

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

— Colin Powell

Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And,…

— Colin Powell

In the military, we are also taught to only use one third of the available decision-making time, so that our subordinates have…

— Colin Powell

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants…

— Colin Powell

I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders…

— Colin Powell

Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have,…

— Colin Powell

Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone…

— Colin Powell

You can never err by treating everyone in the building with respect, thoughtfulness, and a kind word. Everyone of our employees is…

— Colin Powell

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going…

— Colin Powell

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

We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United…

— Colin Powell

In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But…

— Colin Powell

I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are…

— Colin Powell

I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have…

— 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