I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Quote by Colin Powell

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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for...

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for...

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt,...

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt,...

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody...

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much...

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much...

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around...

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have...

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have...

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when...

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when...

I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I...

I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I...

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart...

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart...

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly...

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly...

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not...

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not...

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised...

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised...

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it...

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it...

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best...

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best...

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes,...

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes,...

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless...

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless...

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or...

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or...