Colin Luther Powell Quotes

• Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

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• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

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• I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

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• It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

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• The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‘Gee, isn’t that wonderful?’

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• You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

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• I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

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• If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

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• 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world

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• Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

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• Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

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• No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

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• Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

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• Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

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• I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

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• Some of the generals are saying, ‘We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.’ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

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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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