All Colin Powell Quotes
- No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's… America
- It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them. Dumber
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers ... Almost Always
- The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who… Cannot Change
- Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? Behind
- The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An… Acting
- Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Endeavor
- Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings. Black
- All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend,… All
- Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off. Almost Inevitably
- The bottom line in all of it is that, in life, it's all about people. All
- You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the… Execution
- Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the… Academic
- Luck tends to come to people who are prepared. Inspirational
- We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. Almost Never
- There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization. Inspirational
- Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now Bears
- Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate… All
- The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method Best
- Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together Al
- Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries. Assertions
- We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more. Destruction
- So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad?... I think our judgment… Baghdad
- I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now. Absolutely
- We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the… Economy