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Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.
Colin Powell
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Colin Powell
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 5
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
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Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
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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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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
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It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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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 essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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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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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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Don't just count your days, make your days count.
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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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The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)... Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
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Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.
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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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