"I happen to hold a bachelor of..." - Quote by Colin Powell

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

“In the military, we are also taught to only use one third of the available decision-making time, so that our subordinates have time to go through their own decision processes when they learn what we want them to do.”

“Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have, people will be lined up, and they'll all say the same thing, "We want to go to America." So we're still the leader of the world that wants to be free. We are still the inspiration of the rest of the world. And we can come back.”

“Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

“A married philosopher is a comic character.”

“The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.”

“The idea of having a steady job is appealing.”

“I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.”

“Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.”