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 PowellLeadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Colin PowellWar 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 PowellIn terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's 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