90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world. – Colin Powell
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people thats 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
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didnt come back, and make sure the Taliban wasnt resurging. It didnt work out. – Colin Powell
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. – Daisaku Ikeda