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Quotes by Colin Powell
- War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
- We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
- We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
- We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
- What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
- When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.
- Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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