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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

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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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Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
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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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I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.
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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
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So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
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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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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.
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Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.
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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.
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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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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It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.
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You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
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