“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
“I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.”
– Colin Powell
“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”
– Colin Powell
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
– Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
– Colin Powell
“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”
– Colin Powell
“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
– Colin Powell
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
– Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell
“What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.”
– Colin Powell
“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”
– Colin Powell
“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”
– Colin Powell
“You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.”
– Colin Powell
“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”
– Colin Powell
“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”
– Colin Powell
“Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.”
– Colin Powell
“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”
– Colin Powell
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
– Colin Powell
“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
“I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.”
– Colin Powell
“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
“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
– Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
– Colin Powell
“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.”
– Colin Powell
“I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.”
– Colin Powell
“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
– Colin Powell
“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
– Colin Powell
“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
– Colin Powell