Colin Powell
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell is an American statesman 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, as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Commandand as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the latter position during the Persian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 April 1937
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
When you wrestle with a pig, he has fun, and you just end up dirty.
It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.
Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together
The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.
I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.
The long bitter years of the Cold War are over. America and her allies have won; totally, decisively, and overwhelmingly....So thank you SAC. Job well done. Enjoy your retirement.
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.