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
A dream doesn't become reality...
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.
Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.
They can't violate their agreements and then say we violated, what will you pay us to get out of the violation,
there is no indication whatsoever that Iraq has made the strategic decision to come clean and comply with its international obligation to disarm.
Cuba is an anachronism ... and history will catch up with them.
We're talking about the most deadly things one can imagine
We cannot be shocked into impotence because we're afraid of the difficult choices that are ahead of us,
We want to find a solution which will allow Pakistan to move its forces away from the border so that we have less tension at that border, less opportunity for some incident to spark a conflict between the two sides.
The United States and India stand united against terrorism and that includes terrorism directed against India as well,
The oil fields are the property of the Iraqi people, and if a coalition of forces goes into those oil fields, we would want to protect those fields and make sure that they are used to benefit the people of Iraq and are not destroyed or damaged by a failing regime on the way out the door,
Anything we say to the North Koreans would be known to our friends and partners. There will be no secrets,