Tag: Colin Powell
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
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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
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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
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90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin Powell
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In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.
Colin Powell
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I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
Colin Powell
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Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
Colin Powell
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Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.
Colin Powell
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You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.
Colin Powell
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The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.
Colin Powell