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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

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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Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
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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. They move.
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I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
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An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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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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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
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Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.
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Decision-making is lonely.
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Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.
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Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility in human intelligence and in human decisions.
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.
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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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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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We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.
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How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.
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