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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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The president's personal staff has a unique role.
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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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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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My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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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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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Bahrain is moving at one pace, Morocco another, Qatar at another, Kuwait at yet another. And we are there to assist our friends.
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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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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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The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.
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Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.
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Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.
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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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Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
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