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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.

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
Always
Watching
Somebody
Best

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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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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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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it comes to deterring a crisis. And the ships and Marines may not have to do anything but lie offshore. It is hard to lie offshore with a C-141 or C-130 full of airborne troops.
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I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.
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America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
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Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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We have to be on guard that we don't spend so much time worrying about terrorism and guarding ourselves that we start to lose the essence of who we are as an open, freedom-loving people, welcoming to the rest of the world.
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As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.
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I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
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I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
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You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
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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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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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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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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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