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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Colin Powell

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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New York City
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Colin Luther Powell
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Thee are such horrible weapons. And so no sane leader would ever want to cross that line to using nuclear weapons. And, if you are not going to cross that line, then these things are basically useless.
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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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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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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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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
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A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
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We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping to find a way to solve this peacefully, but at the same time recognising that unless the threat of military force is there, Iraq will not disarm.
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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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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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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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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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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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The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.
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We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the matter is we do rely on imported oil to fuel our economy and to fuel our nation.
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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
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Let me blow that up for you again.
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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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