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" 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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" Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations. "
Colin Powell
Time
Mad
Enemy
" 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. "
Colin Powell
Believe
Conflict
Beginning
" Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. "
Colin Powell
Wisdom
Your
Avoid
" It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military. "
Colin Powell
Say
Always
Support
" Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. "
Colin Powell
Great
Solution
Argument
" 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. "
Colin Powell
Leader
Fall
Passion
" In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there's a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is. "
Colin Powell
Think
Republican
Seeing
" 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
Place
People
Me
" Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. "
Colin Powell
Work Hard
People
Play
" People have asked me, 'What would you have done if you hadn't gone into the Army?' I'd say I'd probably be a bus driver. I don't know. "
Colin Powell
Me
You
Done
" Russia isn't going to start a war. They can't afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is. "
Colin Powell
War
Start
Know
" You don't know what you can get away with until you try. "
Colin Powell
Until
You
Try
" So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. "
Colin Powell
Believe
Basketball
Win
" Get mad, then get over it. "
Colin Powell
Over It
Then
Anger
" Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together. "
Colin Powell
Work
You
People
" 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. "
Colin Powell
Start
You
Writing
" It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. "
Colin Powell
Raised
Say
Partisan
" You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible. "
Colin Powell
Know
War
End
" Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must. "
Colin Powell
Career
Fight
War
" Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families. "
Colin Powell
You
Always
Fun
" I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. "
Colin Powell
Place
Religion
Respect
" 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. "
Colin Powell
Just
Voting
Political
" The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. "
Colin Powell
Commander
Field
Right
" No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. "
Colin Powell
Survives
Plan
Enemy
" I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. "
Colin Powell
Work
Community
Know
" You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. "
Colin Powell
Tea
American
Think
" Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation. "
Colin Powell
Party
Get
Children
" It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?' "
Colin Powell
Street
Start
Political
" It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. "
Colin Powell
Morning
Bad
Better
" I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. "
Colin Powell
You
Attitude
Leader