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If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.

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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The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
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The information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure to what extent Saddam [Hussein] was trying to convey an incorrect picture to us.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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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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Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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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 root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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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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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.
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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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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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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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In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.
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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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