Colin Powell
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor, as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Commandand as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the latter position during the Persian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 April 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation, and lead it in a way that keeps it together as a single nation and where all parts of the nation - Shia, Sunni and Kurds - are able to live free and in peace and believe that their interests are represented by the government.
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.
Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.