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I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Politician
Soldier
New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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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 intervening.
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That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call charm school. As soon as you are a general, people think that you know everything. You think yourself that you have become omniscient and omnipotent. Be careful, because people want to do everything they can to please the general, and you need to guard against this.
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Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
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I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.
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Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
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Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Let me blow that up for you again.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
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The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.
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