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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. ↗

— Colin Powell

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I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. ↗

— Colin Powell

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

— Colin Powell

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In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

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It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred. ↗

— Colin Powell

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It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured. ↗

— Colin Powell

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Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America. ↗

— Colin Powell

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We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. ↗

— Richard Powers

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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. ↗

— Colin Powell

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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

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