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
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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.
You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
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.
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.