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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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I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.
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A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
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The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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The person who will decide whether or not there will be war or peace is Saddam Hussein, and all he has to do is give up these terrible weapons that he has used to kill fellow Arabs, fellow Muslims in that part of the world, and to step away from his past behaviour which invaded neighbouring countries.
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It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.
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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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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.
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I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.
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The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.
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Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
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The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.
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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
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I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
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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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One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.
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I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.
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