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The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
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New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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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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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
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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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The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
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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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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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The president's personal staff has a unique role.
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With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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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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It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.
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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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War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.
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I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.
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We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
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You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
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