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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

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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Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.
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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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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
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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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I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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In the army, all combat officers are taught the Estimate of the Situation: When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.
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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
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I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.
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Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.
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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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Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.
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Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
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Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don't take it personally.
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I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
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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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