The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.
Colin PowellWar should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Colin PowellWhen 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 Powell