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" I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. "
Colin Powell
Want
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" There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. "
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" We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken. "
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" The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. "
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" I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon. "
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" Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' "
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" High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it's not evenly distributed. "
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" You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy. "
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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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" There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening. "
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Challenge
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Trump
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" Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos. "
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Just
" Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no. That's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president? "
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" Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. "
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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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" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "
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Time
Percent
" The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter. "
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" Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. "
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" You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. "
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Millions
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