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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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Iraq
Nobody
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Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
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As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.
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We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.
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I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.
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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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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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We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the matter is we do rely on imported oil to fuel our economy and to fuel our nation.
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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
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Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.
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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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I think all of the attention of the world, to include the attention of the Arab world, should be on Saddam Hussein and whether or not he is prepared to give up the weapons of mass destruction that he has used to terrorise the region.
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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
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The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.
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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
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How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.
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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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