Colin Powell Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when I was national security adviser, that people in that position do not testify before the Congress. They talk to the Congress. They have meetings with the Congress.

  Colin Powell

  Unique, People, President

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

• The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever together by common democratic values and traditions. This will never change.

  Colin Powell

  Two Nations, Israel, Forever

  McConnell Center Address on U.S. Role in Arab-Israeli Conflict, delivered 19 November 2001

• I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their heritage and their traditions, but I think that they now, as they move forward, will have to start examining these traditions and these practices to see whether or not change is appropriate.

  Colin Powell

  Moving, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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