The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
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 PowellPresident Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
Colin Powell