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" 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. "
Colin Powell
Move
Progress
Saying
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" No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. "
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" Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. "
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" Yup, the whole birther movement was racist. "
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Yup
Movement
" I try to be the same person I was yesterday. "
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" 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?' "
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Political
" 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. "
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You
People
" 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. "
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Giving
Children
Know
" Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. "
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Positive
Optimism
Perpetual
" 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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World
Talking
" In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right. "
Colin Powell
Republican
Last
Party
" 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
" 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. "
Colin Powell
Army
Born
College
" The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. "
Colin Powell
Commander
Field
Right
" 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. "
Colin Powell
Purpose
Politics
People
" What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently. "
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Find
Trouble
Time
" Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don't see why we shouldn't use them against identified enemy targets. "
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See
American
Enemy
" Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. "
Colin Powell
Giving Up
Giving Back
Giving
" 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
Black
Me
You
" As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. "
Colin Powell
Election
Decision
Time
" 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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Progress
Health
Relationships
" 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. "
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Time
Mad
Enemy
" The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. "
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United States
Greatest
Relief
" I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. "
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Decision
Time
Supreme Court
" President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he's a liar. "
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He
Know
Liar
" 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
" 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. "
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Say
Always
Support
" We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. "
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Government
Opportunity
People
" Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. "
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Fancy
Nothing
Organization
" 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. "
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Confidence
Leadership
Day
" 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. "
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You
Always
Fun