When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.
Colin PowellLeaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
Colin PowellWhen we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.
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