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
Colin Powell quotes about
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.
We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.
We didn't deal with Yasser Arafat when we were putting the road map together, and so his comments don't mean a whole lot to me.
We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,
We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief.
ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.
Unless North Korea ends its program, it cannot expect the benefits of relations with the outside world.
There are many roles to be played, and we believe that every peace-loving nation in the world -- every nation that would like to see a more stable Middle East, that would like to see a democracy arise in that part of the world -- would like to play a role,
We have no intention of invading North Korea or taking hostile action against North Korea,