All Colin Powell Quotes
- Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. Campaign
- It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. Bipartisan
- Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. Charts
- I try to be the same person I was yesterday. Inspirational
- Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America. America
- I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity… Bless
- I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters. Consider
- I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. Generosity
- We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. Dictator
- I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. Community
- I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. Aftermath
- It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured. Disgrace
- Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great! Birthday
- Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. Bags
- There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about… Civil
- If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down… Convey
- In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a… Company
- It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How… Anger
- When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq… Afghanistan
- We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to… Any
- It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry,… Always Keep
- You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has… Actually Believe
- You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were… Able
- Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area.… Area
- Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number… Better