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Colin Powell Quotes
«I can assure you that President Bush understands the commitment and obligations that we have made to our NATO allies and to the people in the region, ... This will be done carefully, it will be done as a part of an overall review of all of our commitments overseas»
Author: Colin Powell
«engaged on the issue.»
Author: Colin Powell
«In the end, we cannot want peace more than the parties themselves, ... But we will be there to help.»
Author: Colin Powell
«Whether that will bear fruit, I don't know.»
Author: Colin Powell
«[On peace-making, he described Sharon and Arafat as leaders looking down a long hallway, with a settlement at the end.] They have the keys, ... it's going to take some time before they get back to negotiations.»
Author: Colin Powell
«We have to make sure he is denied the opportunity to continue moving in this direction, ... We have to make sure that we do everything we can to contain him, to constrain him, to get inspectors back in under the terms of the U.N. resolutions.»
Author: Colin Powell
«The hostilities last night in Gaza were precipitated by the provocative Palestinian mortar attacks on Israel, ... The Israeli response was excessive and disproportionate.»
Author: Colin Powell
«All week long, as we announced the smaller amounts, ... I made it clear and the president made it clear that we knew those numbers would rise. But you can't just throw a number out. You have to get some sense of what is needed.»
Author: Colin Powell
«I wish it was possible for everything to be race-neutral in this country, but I'm afraid we're not yet at that point where things are race-neutral,»
Author: Colin Powell
«Hopefully, I think, there's a little bit of traction now starting to take place as people see that we can't keep doing what we have seen being done in recent weeks.»
Author: Colin Powell