I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.
Colin PowellTime is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.
Colin PowellIt's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
Colin PowellWe hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development.
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