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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.

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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Bahrain
Qatar
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Kuwait
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Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all the information you are liable to get, start thinking in terms of making a decision. When you have about 70 percent of all the information, you probably ought to decide, because you may lose an opportunity in losing time.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.
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It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.
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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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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
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The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
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The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.
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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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Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.
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First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
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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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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
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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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Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
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I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what I think the country needs at that time, and I will vote for the person I think who is most qualified to serve the nation at that time.
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