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

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

Ralph Boston, American Athlete

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

Harry S. Truman, American President

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"No holidays, no country."

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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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"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."

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

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"Experts often possess more data than judgment."

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

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"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."

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

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"No holidays, no country."

"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Explore more quotes by Colin Powell

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

"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."

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

"Experts often possess more data than judgment."

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

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

"Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff."

"It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."

"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."