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When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. ↗

— Colin Powell

#any #anyone #be prepared #become #country

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. ↗

— Colin Powell

#between #called #contract #country #creating

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#happen #history #knew #littered #never

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#capacity #creative #factual #fictional #lasting

The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#choice #comparison #conditions #different #economic

Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#events #fast #happening #historians #i

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#after #any #believe #campaigning #candidates

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#choice #ethically #feminist #freedom #glamorous

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #enabled #exchanges #factory #industrial

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#economy #estimated #jobs #unskilled #virtually