Quote by Colin Powell
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opp

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. – Colin Powell

Other quotes by Colin Powell

Dont let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesnt go with it. – Colin Powell

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Business
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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. – Colin Powell

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Hope
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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. – Colin Powell

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Politics
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Other Quotes from
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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. – Woodrow Wilson

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Government

Well support the government on issues if its essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians. – Stephen Harper

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Government

A government of laws, and not of men. – John Adams

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Government

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. – Jim DeMint

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Government

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Friendship

I will never do another TV series. It couldnt top I Love Lucy, and Id be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off. – Lucille Ball

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Business

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? – W. C. Fields

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Death

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson

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Diplomacy