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
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
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.
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.
Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
The one thing the terrorists cannot do -- not one of them, not 10 of them, not 10,000 of them -- they cannot change who we are.
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.
I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.