Colin Powell Quotes

"irretrievable loss to the understanding of history and the efforts of Iraqi and international scholars to study and gain new insight into our past."

"believed what he was giving to me was accurate."

"For the United States this is money well spent, ... not just a one-time shot."

"are determined to see the guilty parties swiftly brought to justice."

"imposed a visa ban on Zimbabwe's leaders and frozen their overseas assets."

"There is no magic calendar as to when they should go in, ... They should go in when they have the authority to do their job."

"I think the president has made his position clear: He wants the incursion stopped. He has noted some progress, but he wants to see more progress. And this is what I'll be discussing with Prime Minister Sharon in the morning,"

"We know that Cuba has been doing some research with respect to biological offensive weapons possibly, and so we think that it is appropriate for us to point out this kind of activity,"

"I am prepared to go anywhere, anytime when it serves a useful purpose,"

"We don't know whether they have been used for that purpose or not, but they were certainly designed and constructed for that purpose,"

"My folks have come up with models that span 80 years, ... We will explore ideas with our friends in the weeks ahead."

"be dictated by any fear on our part."

"We should have no fear that in any way are we going to lower the standards of the U.S. Army,"

"moving forward. We are in very intensive discussions and negotiations and exchanging ideas and papers and there has been movement, but that's as far as I'd like to go now."

"because there has been movement, and because we are exchanging rather precise ideas as to how to bring this to a conclusion."

"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world."

"We don't want to hurt the Iraqi people,"

"The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny."

"the intelligence system did not work well."

"Well, as you know, there have been a variety of reports coming in, intelligence reports that suggest we ought to be especially vigilant as we go into the Fourth of July season, ... Face the Nation."