"The United States stands willing to work..." - Quote by Colin Powell
The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
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“Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.”
“Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.”
“Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.”
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“Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.”
“Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.”
“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.”
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“It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.”
“An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.”
“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”