Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

— Colin Powell

Remain calm, be kind.

— Colin Powell

Let me blow that up for you again.

— Colin Powell

A dream doesn't become reality...

— Colin Powell

“Perpetual optimism is a force leveler”

— Colin Powell

Decision-making is lonely.

— Colin Powell

Get mad, then get over it.

— Colin Powell

Have a vision. Be demanding.

— Colin Powell

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

— Colin Powell

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

— Colin Powell

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers ...

— Colin Powell

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

— Colin Powell

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

— Colin Powell

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

— Colin Powell

Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

— Colin Powell

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

— Colin Powell

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

— Colin Powell

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

— Colin Powell

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to…

— Colin Powell

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-”

— Colin Powell

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

— Colin Powell

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your…

— Colin Powell

Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now

— Colin Powell

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

— Colin Powell

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger…

— Colin Powell

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that…

— Colin Powell

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given…

— Colin Powell

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk,…

— Colin Powell

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that…

— Colin Powell

We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep…

— Colin Powell

We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against…

— Colin Powell

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to…

— 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

“Even in the grimmest of enterprises there are tension breakers. At one point, the tabloid National Enquirer ran a story headlined “Bush…

— Colin Powell

Being kind doesn't mean being soft or a wuss. Kindness is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of confidence.…

— Colin Powell

“The day you are not solving problems or are not up to your butt in problems is probably a day you are…

— Colin Powell

This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one…

— Colin Powell

What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation,…

— Colin Powell

All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to…

— Colin Powell

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But…

— Colin Powell