"With respect to our friends in the..." - Quote by Colin Powell
With respect to our friends in the [Iraq] region, each has its own system, each will have to make its own judgment as to whether it will change, how fast it will change, and we hope that we can help influence them as to how change comes about and what change might be better for them than other forms of change.
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“An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.”
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