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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

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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The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading.
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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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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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
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I think the American people want to see what we want to see, and that is for the Iraqi people to have a free, open, fair election, for their forces to be built up, for our reconstruction money to be used well, and for Iraqi security forces to take over so we can start bringing our troops home.
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It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
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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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No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
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Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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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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We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.
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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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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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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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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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