Colin Powell Quotes on Place (13 Quotes)

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

When we pledge an amount, we plan to deliver that amount, ... Sometimes there are difficulties with respect to the actual delivery of resources. In a place like Iran, that might be particularly difficult.

Our policies have strengthened the security of neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, ... But we're always willing to review them to make sure that they're carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambition and ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

Congress has in place certain restrictions on what we can do with the Indonesians, so we will approach the new Indonesian Government with an attitude of helpfulness but also an attitude of caution and only provide those things that are consistent with our laws,

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

My judgment is that sanctions of some form must be kept in place . . . we are not doing this to hurt the Iraqi people, we are doing this to protect the people of the region.

The road map for Middle East peace, developed by the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union, places obligations and responsibilities on all of the parties, ... We must see the end of terror and the end of violence.

help the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leaders begin to put in place a more effective security structure to keep the violence under control.

If he were to leave the country and take some of his family members with him and others in the elite that have been responsible for so much trouble within his regime, we would of course help find a place for them to go,

There is also no debate among my colleagues in the Security Council that we need to have a tough inspection regime that is any time, any place, anybody. The discussion is, how do you link consequences to their failure to act this time

We'll do everything we can to find out what happened and present that information to the public. We are very regretful that this incident took place,

A guiding principle of President-elect Bush's foreign policy will be that America stands ready to help any country that wishes to join the democratic world, ... Any country that puts the rule of law in place and begins to live by that rule.

We've made it clear, however, that we think it would be best for them to withdraw now... We're expecting other withdrawals to take place, the sooner the better,