Colin Luther Powell Quotes

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  Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

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  Topics in Failure, Perfection, Success, Work

  Tags in Learning, Loyalty, Persistence

• I sleep like a baby too-every two hours I wake up screaming.

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• I remember the front door. I remember the auditorium. I remember the feeling that you can’t make it. But you can.

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• First we’re going to cut it off, and then we’re going to kill it.

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• The American people do not want their young dying for $1.50 a gallon oil.

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• We have decapitated him from the dictatorship.

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• Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you’re willing to do your best.

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  Tags in Freedom

• I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Appoint, Issues, People

• Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Differences, Opinion, Relations

• Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

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  Tags in Defining, Moving
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  You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

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  Tags in Try, Until

• So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

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  Tags in Believe, Like

• It was the Congress that imposed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainly, Position

• Just hit my 75th birthday, I’m feeling great!

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  Topics in Birthday

  Tags in Feeling, Great

• Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

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  Tags in Competitor, Look

• In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Company, Expect, Great

• 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 Luther Powell

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Creating, Marriage, People

• If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Depressed, Leader, Passion

• 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.

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  Tags in Educate, Government, Important

• 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.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Nation, President

Colin Luther Powell (76)

Birth:	5th April, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Soldier

About

Colin Luther Powell was born in New York City, New York. He is an American politician and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position.  During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor. He received his BS degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1958 and was a self-admitted C average student. He was later able to earn a MBA degree from the George Washington University in 1971, after his second tour in Vietnam.

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