Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin PowellWe are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.
Colin PowellLeadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
Colin PowellLet's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now
Colin PowellI'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.
Colin Powell