Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – 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
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. – 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