Colin Powell

"Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible."

"What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Cant you get these guys back in the box?"

"There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy."

"A life is not about its events; its about challenges met and overcome- or not; its about successes and failures. But more than all of these put together, its about how we touch and are touched by the people we meet. Its all about the people. I hope that comes through clearly in the pages you have just read. The people in my life made me what I am."

"Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream."

"My heart grieves when I think about the situation in the Middle East. Ive worked very hard on this for two years, and for years before that. But trust is broken down. We have to do everything we can in our power — all of us, the United States, the European Union, any other nation that has the ability to influence the situation in the Middle East — to work with the Palestinians to put in place a leadership that is responsible, with representative institutions of government that will clamp down on terrorism, that will say to its people, "Terrorism is not getting us anywhere. It is not producing what we want: a Palestinian state. It is keeping us away from a Palestinian state." And we also have to say to our Israeli friends that you have to do more to deal with the humanitarian concerns of the Palestinian people, and you have to understand that a Palestinian state, when its created, must be a real state, not a phony state thats diced into a thousand different pieces."