Colin Powell Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Country, Military

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.612, Ballantine Books

• But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Moving, Writing

  "Bayh Indictment of Washington Causes Little Soul Searching". www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2010.

• I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a 'socialist' taking over the country. Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system? That's kind of absurd.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Men, Thinking

• We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Believe, Past

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

• Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Stupid, Intelligence Services

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

• We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Government, Community

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.

• The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for men and women, .. I think that is what makes us such a draw for nations around the world. People come to the United States to be educated, to become Americans. We are a country of countries and we touch every country, and every country in world touches us.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Men, Thinking

  "Powell participates in MTV global forum" by Andrea Koppel and Elise Labott, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2002.

• Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

  Colin Powell

  Christian, Country, What If

  "Colin Powell Chooses Meet the Press to Endorse Barack Obama". "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.adweek.com. October 19, 2008.

• Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

  Colin Powell

  Country, America, Answers

  "Muslim Americans Weigh In On 2008 Campaign". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 28, 2008.

• In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Moving, Law

  "Colin Powell endorses gay marriage" by Tim Mak, www.politico.com. May 23, 2012.

• We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country - to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!

  Colin Powell

  Country, Volunteer, Community

• When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Military, Responsibility

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 11, 2012.

• This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us who have been blessed by the wealth of this country sharing that blessing by reaching down and reaching back and lifting up somebody in need. That's what America is all about. That's what being American is all about.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Blessed, Blessing

• I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president. And should that happen, all Americans should be proud - not just African-Americans, but all Americans - that we have reached this point in our national history where such a thing could happen. It will also not only electrify our country, I think it'll electrify the world.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Regret, Eight

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

• The person who will decide whether or not there will be war or peace is Saddam Hussein, and all he has to do is give up these terrible weapons that he has used to kill fellow Arabs, fellow Muslims in that part of the world, and to step away from his past behaviour which invaded neighbouring countries.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Giving Up, War

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Government, Work Out

• We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Thinking, Als

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

• It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, People, Hussein

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Couple, War

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• 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

• Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . . . and chaos erupted. We did not assert control and authority over the country, especially Baghdad. We did not bring with us the capacity to impose our will. We did not take charge. And Iraq did not in a few weeks magically transform itself into a stable nation with democratic leaders. Instead a raging insurgency engulfed the country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Iraq, Leader

• There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

  Colin Powell

  Country, War, Talking

• I have always gone through public life and saying that with respect to political candidates, I always measure each candidate against what I think the country needs at that time, and I will vote for the person I think who is most qualified to serve the nation at that time.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Thinking, Political

  "Interview With Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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