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A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

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
Compass
Shame
Moral
Sense

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We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping to find a way to solve this peacefully, but at the same time recognising that unless the threat of military force is there, Iraq will not disarm.
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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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I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.
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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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Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].
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Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.
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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
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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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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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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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Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
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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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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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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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It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.
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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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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
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