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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.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
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When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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