“A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
Dreams
“I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.”
WorkAll Quotes by Colin Powell
“It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Morning“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.”
Government“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Great“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
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.”
Government“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.”
Society“Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!”
Birthday“I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.”
Work“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.”
Politics“We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.”
Government“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.”
Marriage“90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.”
History“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.”
Attitude“Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?”
Great“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.”
Business“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?'”
Anger“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.”
Power“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.”
Hope“When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.”
Government