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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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One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.
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All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
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The information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure to what extent Saddam [Hussein] was trying to convey an incorrect picture to us.
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Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.
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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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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.
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Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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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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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops.
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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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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
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Decision-making is lonely.
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We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
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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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So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
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