Colin Powell Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• Experts often possess more data than judgment.

  Colin Powell

  Data, Experts, Action

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.173, Ballantine Books

• Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Exercise, Data

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.102, Ballantine Books

• 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.

• Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

  Colin Powell

  Loyalty, Integrity, Ego

• So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Iraq, Wmd

  Colin Powell Response to reports from U.N. weapons inspectors to the U.N. Security Council, edition.cnn.com. March 7, 2003.

• I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.

  Colin Powell

  Names, Might, Sometimes

  "Colin Powell Trashes Mitt Romney’s Team Of Foreign Policy Advisers" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

• I think the American people are sophisticated enough and wise enough to make judgments about the candidates and wade through the charges and countercharges that come with the [election 2004] campaign.

  Colin Powell

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, Might, Helping

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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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