“I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.”
Attitude
“I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.”
WorkAll Quotes by Colin Powell
“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“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.”
Health“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
Failure“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Great“I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.”
History“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“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“In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.”
Great“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“Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?”
Great“Get mad, then get over it.”
Anger“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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
Dreams“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
Politics“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“My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.”
Experience“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“It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Morning