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
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.
We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.
Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!
Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
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