Colin Powell nejznámější citáty
„Nejenom studená válka skončila, skončilo i období po studené válce.“
18. říjen 2002
Zdroj: [Wright, John, 2008, The New York Almanac 2002, 1, V, 1-579-58348-2]
„Řiďte se svými vzory, a pokud věříte v hodnoty, které vyznává, dočkáte se zázračných věcí.“
Zdroj: [Sobotka, Michal, Zemřel bývalý americký ministr zahraničí Colin Powell, novinky.cz, 2021-10-18, 2021-10-19, https://www.novinky.cz/zahranicni/amerika/clanek/zemrel-byvaly-americky-ministr-zahranici-colin-powell-40375283, čeština]
Colin Powell: Citáty anglicky
Remarks to the United Nations Security Council (5 February 2003) http://web.archive.org/web/20050204130309/http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/17300.htm; in an interview (September 2005) http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Politics/story?id=1105979&page=1 with Barbara Walters, Powell was asked about the Security Council speech and responded that it was a "blot" on his record… "it will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now." <br class="br">2000s
1990s, My American Journey (1996)
1990s, Letter to Patrick Leahy (1999)
1990s, My American Journey (1996)
Interview with CNN (27 October 2004), as quoted in "Warnings by Powell to Taiwan Provoke a Diplomatic Dispute" in The New York Times (28 October 2004) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDB123DF93BA15753C1A9629C8B63. <br class="br">2000s
“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.”
Epigram wrongly attributed to Thucydides kept in the office of General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Misattributed
“That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.”
Reported as a comment on "the number of Iraqi dead from the combined allied air and ground campaign" by Tyler, Patrick. "After The War; Powell Says U.S. Will Stay In Iraq 'For Some Months.'" New York Times, March 23 1991, pp. 1,4. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/23/world/after-the-war-powell-says-us-will-stay-in-iraq-for-some-months.html <br class="br">2000s
“Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.”
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.”
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
1990s, Letter to Patrick Leahy (1999)
“What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?”
Remark made to Joint Chiefs of Staff General Shelton regarding comments by Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, advocating an attack on Iraq, even before the battle plan for attacking the Taliban was formulated, shortly after the “the crucial meeting took place on September 15 in the Laurel Lodge at Camp David, at which Wolfowitz made the case for action against Iraq.” [Halper, Stefan, Clarke, Johnathan, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 0-521-83834-7 hardback, 149-150]. Also see [Woodware, Bob, Bush at War, 2002, Simon and Schuster, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 0743215389, 61]. (Remark from 9/2001 shortly after 9/11).
2000s
On Chinese and Taiwanese relations, in interview with Phoenix Television of Hong Kong (27 October 2004), as quoted in "Warnings by Powell to Taiwan Provoke a Diplomatic Dispute" in The New York Times (28 October 2004) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDB123DF93BA15753C1A9629C8B63. <br class="br">2000s
1990s, Letter to Patrick Leahy (1999)
Remark made as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcing the U.S. gulf war plan against Saddam Hussein's army. Pentagon press briefing (23 January 1991).
1990s
General Colin Powell, 21 April 1993, receiving the UN-USA Global Leadership Award.
1990s
As quoted in NBC's Meet the Press http://www.thenation.com/article/when-republicans-really-were-party-lincoln/ (2013). <br class="br">2010s
Press remarks http://web.archive.org/web/20020217230935/http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/933.htm with Foreign Minister of Egypt Amre Moussa, in Ittihadiya Palace, Cairo (24 February 2001). <br class="br">2000s
1990s, Letter to Patrick Leahy (1999)
1990s, Letter to Patrick Leahy (1999)
As quoted in Plan of Attack (2004) by Bob Woodward, a book in which he was a key source, cautioning President Bush before the Iraqi war that he would be responsible for the fate of the Iraqi's after the fall of the Hussein regime.
2000s
Quoted by Lawrence Wilkerson in Breaking Ranks Larry Wilkerson Attacked the Iraq War. In the Process, He Lost the Friendship of Colin Powell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/01/19/breaking-ranks-span-classbankheadlarry-wilkerson-attacked-the-iraq-war-in-the-process-he-lost-the-friendship-of-colin-powellspan/d1f359c6-93a0-41c1-beee-2284d6284d47/ Washington Post, by Richard Lei (19 January 2006) <br class="br">2000s
Powell told David Frost in a BBC television interview <br class="br">Quoted in Breaking Ranks Larry Wilkerson Attacked the Iraq War. In the Process, He Lost the Friendship of Colin Powell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/01/19/breaking-ranks-span-classbankheadlarry-wilkerson-attacked-the-iraq-war-in-the-process-he-lost-the-friendship-of-colin-powellspan/d1f359c6-93a0-41c1-beee-2284d6284d47/ Washington Post, by Richard Lei (19 January 2006) <br class="br">2000s
“The people in my life made me what I am.”
Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 279
“As successes come your way, remember that you didn't do it alone. It is always we.”
Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 266
Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 36
Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 23
“I may be down, but never out. An infantry officer can do anything.”
Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 6
Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. xii
