Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
Colin PowellYou should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
Colin PowellLeaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.
Colin PowellYou should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
Colin Powell