Quote #11

'That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.'

More from Colin Powell

  1. 'I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.' (Upon hearing that President Bush was 'sleeping like a baby' on the…
  2. 'The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.'
  3. 'This may sound a little improper, but when the Vice President and I are alone it's Colin and Dick.'
  4. 'The policies - determining who would be drafted and who would be deferred, who would serve and who would escape, who would die and who wou…
  5. 'There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm polic…
  6. 'Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came …
  7. 'We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seekin…
  8. 'Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.'

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