"Yup, the whole birther movement was racist...." - Quote by Colin Powell

“We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.”

“Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.”

“I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.”

“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”

“There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.”

“I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.”

“One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.”

“This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?”

“I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.”