Famous quotes by Statesmans

"And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"You don't know what you can get away with until you try"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"I try to be the same person I was yesterday"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Get mad, then get over it"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission!"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Experts often possess more data than judgment"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the Constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"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"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"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"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"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"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"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"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation!"

Colin Powell, Statesman

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