Colin Powell Quotes

Colin Powell Quotes.

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

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.
Colin Powell
Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.
Colin Powell
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
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
Colin Powell
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.
Colin Powell
It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Colin Powell
We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.
Colin Powell
Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.
Colin Powell
You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.
Colin Powell
I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
Colin Powell
The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.
Colin Powell
It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
Colin Powell
The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they final

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‘Gee, isn’t that wonderful?’
Colin Powell
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell