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You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Colin Powell

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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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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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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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I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.
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It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.
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There is no suggestion of regime change quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.
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I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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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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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.
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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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Let me blow that up for you again.
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I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.
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President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)... Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
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Decision-making is lonely.
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