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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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Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
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The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
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Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.
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I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
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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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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
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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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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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An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.
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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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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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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.
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When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
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There is no suggestion of regime change quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.
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