Tag: Colin Powell
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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
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It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Colin Powell
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Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell
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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’.
Colin Powell
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Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.
Colin Powell
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell
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The idea that putting Americans ‘first’ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.
Colin Powell
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You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
Colin Powell
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Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Colin Powell
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell