"Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These……" — Colin Powell
"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."
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190 Quotes by Colin Powell
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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power…
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things…
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Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of…
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or…
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as…
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now…
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it…
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More Assertions Quotes
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of…
— Paul Dirac
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By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity…
— Mark Doty
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Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source…
— Unknown Author
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
— Ann Radcliffe
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious…
— Socrates
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From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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