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" If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed. "

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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. "

Colin Powell

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" Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. "

" Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. "

" I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. "

" 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. "

" Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. "

" 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.' "

Colin Powell

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You

" War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. "

" 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. "

" I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. "

" We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. "

" I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. "

" Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise. "

" 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. "

" Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. "

" Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that 'shining city on a hill.' And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can't do it on the cheap. "

" Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Persian Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked. "

Colin Powell

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" In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right. "

" The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. "

" Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. "

" But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. "

" 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. "

" A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. "

" President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he's a liar. "

Colin Powell

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Liar

" Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos. "

" 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. "

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. "