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Remain calm, be kind.

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
Calm
Remain
Kind

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In the army, all combat officers are taught the Estimate of the Situation: When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.
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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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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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One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
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I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.
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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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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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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
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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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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
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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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Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.
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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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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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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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The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
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Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.
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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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If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
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