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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

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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I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.
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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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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
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You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.
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You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
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It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.
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Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
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If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.
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We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.
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Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.
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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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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.
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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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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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Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility in human intelligence and in human decisions.
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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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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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