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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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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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Soldier
New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.
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I think all of the attention of the world, to include the attention of the Arab world, should be on Saddam Hussein and whether or not he is prepared to give up the weapons of mass destruction that he has used to terrorise the region.
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I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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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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Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
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I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.
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Let me blow that up for you again.
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With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
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