When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point…

Quote by Colin Powell

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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we...

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we...

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading...

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading...

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts...

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts...

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work...

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've...

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to...

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to...

Get mad, then get over it.

Get mad, then get over it.

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.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm...

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm...

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

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...

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.

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...

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they...

Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they...

When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, `What the heck...

When I first started here, I was sitting in the ditch thinking, `What the heck...

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.