Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude Colin Powell More Quotes by Colin Powell More Quotes From Colin Powell I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world. Colin Powell historical war peace 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 work-out government country 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. Colin Powell military running fun Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. Colin Powell titles fancy organization It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. Colin Powell partisans raised nice 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. Colin Powell progress defeat moving 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 teacher children school Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. Colin Powell unemployment issues moving My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. Colin Powell views sight people So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. Colin Powell basketball inspirational football The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?' Colin Powell bipartisanship bills wonderful 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 demand united-states purpose He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours. Colin Powell mass-destruction hussein weapons We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be. Colin Powell leader judging people Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen. Colin Powell security-systems russia america We are rather candid with them about the nature of their political processes and the state of development of their institutions, but they are looking to the West because they know that's where success lies. Colin Powell deceit political lying What we would be committed to would be a representative government where all the Iraqi people decide who should lead their nation, and lead it in a way that keeps it together as a single nation and where all parts of the nation - Shia, Sunni and Kurds - are able to live free and in peace and believe that their interests are represented by the government. Colin Powell government believe people I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation. Colin Powell distance leader america It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in. Colin Powell iraq numbers war Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung. Colin Powell kim-il-sung running thinking
