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Colin Powell

"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."

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"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."

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."

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"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."

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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

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"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."
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"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."
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"I try to be the same person I was yesterday."
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"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."
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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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"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
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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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"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."
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"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
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"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."
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