Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
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 PowellThe United States is looking at a way to launch peace with a disarmed Iraq. And so we are studying the declaration that Iraq submitted. Other members of the security council are studying the declaration, as is Unmovic and IAEA, and I would not make a judgment as to whether or not the declaration will be found deficient and whether or not that might lead to a material breach and whether or not, if it did, that would lead to action on the part of the United Nations.
Colin PowellSo has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
Colin Powell