With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.
Colin PowellFree speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Colin PowellI will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the economic difficulties we're having, how to do something about unemployment, how to make sure that we free up our businesses and we don't over-regulate ourselves.
Colin PowellLet me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.
Colin Powell