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You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.


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COLIN POWELL Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
COLIN POWELL What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they...
COLIN POWELL The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate...
COLIN POWELL The plan that is out there -- A, B and C -- is the Mitchell report, ... It calls for a cessation of ...
COLIN POWELL You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations ...
COLIN POWELL We will be with you in this current crisis and in the future,
COLIN POWELL We want that. But we can't do it in a hurried manner before the Iraqis are prepared to discharge tho...
COLIN POWELL Now, if the sources fell apart, then we need to find out how we've gotten ourselves in that position...
COLIN POWELL We know that there are occasions that arise when terrorists are coming in, and we know a bomb is hea...
COLIN POWELL there was reason for guarded optimism. And let us be clear about what brought it all to a halt -- te...
COLIN POWELL There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfe...
COLIN POWELL I for one am not going to apologize that somehow we took Saddam Hussein out and we're putting in a d...
COLIN POWELL It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
COLIN POWELL seeing some convergence of views.
COLIN POWELL Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
COLIN POWELL The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in ...
COLIN POWELL the level of a mammoth new campaign.
COLIN POWELL We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.
COLIN POWELL Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earne...
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