Colin Powell Quotes - Page 12

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• Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

  Colin Powell

  Running, Decision, Way

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

  Colin Powell

  Giving, Democracy, Principles

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

  Colin Powell

  Past, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I worked with the Nato Military Committee. The Head of the Luxembourg Armed Forces had equal standing with me, and I had to respect that. He was the leader of the armed forces of a sovereign country. I had to make sure he never thought that I was looking down on them, merely because they had less power than we did. With that kind of approach you can develop bonds of trust. I tried to do the same thing with my colleagues when I was Secretary of State.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Military, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war with Iran; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that fired chemical weapons at Iran; it was Iraq. And it was not the United States that murdered innocent Iraqi citizens with chemical weapons; it was Iraq.

  Colin Powell

  War, Iran, Kuwait

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration that Iraq submitted. Other members of the security council are studying the declaration, as is Unmovic and IAEA, and I would not make a judgment as to whether or not the declaration will be found deficient and whether or not that might lead to a material breach and whether or not, if it did, that would lead to action on the part of the United Nations.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, United States, Might

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

  Colin Powell

  Hussein, Burden, Regimes

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.

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  Giving Up, Mass Destruction, Office

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There's no doubt in my mind, though, that the Iraqi people would be better off with a different leader who did not waste their oil on weapons, as opposed to education, as opposed to healthcare, as opposed to food, as opposed to roads, as opposed to clean water. It is really sinful, a crime, what Saddam Hussein has done with the wealth of the Iraqi people over the last 30 years.

  Colin Powell

  Years, Oil, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.

  Colin Powell

  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "After The War; Powell Says U.S. Will Stay In Iraq 'For Some Months'" by Patrick E. Tyler, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 1991.

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• I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.

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  Thinking, Challenges, Arabia

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

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  Unique, Design, Arabia

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

  Colin Powell

  Fighting, Political, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

  Colin Powell

  Peace, War, Historical

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• We are not shrinking from talking to Saudis or anyone else in the region, but it is up to each nation in the region to decide on its own how it will proceed and at what pace. There are other nations in the region that had similar policies to Saudi Arabia that are starting to make changes, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco. And so it takes time but when you see the need for such changes, then changes tend to follow.

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  Talking, Qatar, Kuwait

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

  Colin Powell

  Wish, President, Talk To Me

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, United States, World

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm an American, first and foremost, and I'm very proud - I said, I've said to my beloved friend and colleague John McCain, a friend of 25 years, "John, I love you, but I'm not just going to vote for you on the basis of our affection or friendship." And I've said to Barack Obama, "I admire you. I'll give you all the advice I can. But I'm not going to vote for you just because you're black." We have to move beyond this.

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  Moving, Love You, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

  Colin Powell

  Science, Degrees, Fields

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• It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.

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  Hands, People, Energy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The president's personal staff has a unique role.

  Colin Powell

  Unique, President, Roles

  "GOP: Declassify Clarke's 2002 testimony". www.cnn.com. May 6, 2004.

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• Change of regime with respect to Iraq had nothing to do with this; it had everything to do with the fact that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And at the time change in regime as a policy came into effect in 1998, it was seen as the only way to compel Iraq to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction.

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  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Weapons

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

  Colin Powell

  War, United States, Way

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

  Colin Powell

  War, President, Cards

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• It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

  Colin Powell

  People, Disgrace, Millions

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