More From Colin Powell
- "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."
- "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."
- "It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."
More In History
- "My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics."― Todd Gitlin
- "History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."― Anatole France
- "I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it."― Barack Obama