"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We……" — Colin Powell
"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
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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 Dictator Quotes
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
— William Beveridge
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
— Mel Brooks
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they…
— James Buchan
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I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country…
— Madeleine Albright
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in…
— George H. W. Bush
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Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
— George W. Bush
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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
— George W. Bush
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
— Fidel Castro
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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.
— Hugo Chavez
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