C. F. Powell Quotes

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.

If you are black, if you are Puerto Rican or Hispanic, be proud of that. But don't let it become a problem. Let it become somebody else's problem.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

I have always held the view that decisive force should be used in addressing a military conflict. The reason is simple: Why wouldn't you, if you could?

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.

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

There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.

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

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

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

When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

The president's personal staff has a unique role.

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

The United States is not looking for a way to launch war.

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

Ambition and hatred are enough to bring Iraq and al Qaeda together.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

Women tend to reinvest their proceeds in one another, in their communities, in their children.

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

Private Perkins is a funny little codger.

I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.