Colin Powell Quotes

I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the Saudis to decide how they wish to transform their society in order to make it prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.

I think I can change things for the better in this country. I'm doing it now as well, in many areas, mostly in education, higher education and technological entrepreneurship. But I think I could do a lot more from a presidential position.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.

One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.

Sure, we could send in the troops, but the threat of communism wouldn’t diminish until the people’s standard of living was improved and the totalitarian countries of Latin America gave them more freedom.

Power is a necessary condition for enduring foreign-policy success but not a sufficient one.

Havana.- If 1959 was the Year of Liberation, 1960 was the Year of the Agrarian Reform. The nation lived days of intense transformations, not only political but, also, in every aspect of social and individual activity of its citizens.

… weak nation strategy

Governments never lead; they follow progress

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

Make China Strong. Make China String is the only way to ensure that foreign countries will not tart a conflict against us.

China can never be reformed from within. The manifold needs of China will be met permanently, completely, only by Christian civilization. .

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

We want to be a friend and partner to a sovereign, prosperous, and stable Iraq.

The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change.

We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We're in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.

I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him.