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" The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. "
Colin Powell
Above
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Win
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" The idea that putting Americans 'first' requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens. "
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" Experts often possess more data than judgment. "
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" When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far. "
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" Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. "
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" In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. "
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" I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. "
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" The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. "
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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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" Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah. "
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" 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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" 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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" If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. "
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Going
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" 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. "
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War
End
" There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with. "
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Because
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" A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. "
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Determination
Dreams
" 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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Opportunity
People
" We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. "
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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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Position
" 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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" Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. "
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Moving
Unemployment
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" 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. "
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" The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong. "
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" I try to be the same person I was yesterday. "
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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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" You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it. "
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You
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Never