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You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.

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
Politician
Soldier
New York City
New York
Colin Luther Powell
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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
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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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I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.
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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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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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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.
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Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.
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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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The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.
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I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.
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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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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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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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Decision-making is lonely.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
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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.
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We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
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