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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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I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
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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 do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
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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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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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In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
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One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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The president's personal staff has a unique role.
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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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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The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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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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