Quote by Colin Powell
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan governme

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

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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

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Failure
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It isnt enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again? – Colin Powell

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Barack Obamas enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obamas enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it. – Rush Limbaugh

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And some of what were doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties. – Patricia Hewitt

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You know that big government doesnt hurt big corporations. Theyve got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? Its the little guys. – Marco Rubio

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The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people. – Grover Cleveland

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