Colin Powell Quotes on People (47 Quotes)

Once again, terrorists have killed innocent people, and at the same time they have struck a blow once more against the aspirations of the Palestinian people to have a homeland of their own, ... This kind of action has got to stop.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again.

will be held for and used for the people of Iraq.

We're trying to build a better future for the people of Afghanistan and the people of Iraq, ... what they need is security.

Chairman Arafat has to act. He has to do a lot more to get the violence under control, to persuade the Palestinian people, all of these Palestinian organizations, that they are destroying the vision of a Palestinian state by violent acts,

We are looking at the possibilities ahead for Afghanistan's people, ... We're looking to develop a stable country that lives in peace with all of its neighbors.

I was pleased at the chancellor's commitment to move as quickly as we can to lift sanctions entirely so that we can begin to have the flow of oil, which will generate revenue that will benefit the Iraqi people,

has said many times that he is concerned about the welfare of the North Korean people.

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

We have to make sure that, as we fight terrorism using military means and legal means ... we also have to put hope back into the hearts of people, ... We have to show people who might move in the direction of terrorism that there is a better way.

We are hoping that the tribal sheikhs who have come to help with this situation will be able to talk to the people inside the town and say, 'Let's end this, let's bring this to a conclusion.'

The important thing is to be able to begin moving oil out of Iraq in due course in order to generate revenue for the Iraqi people.

attempt on the part of the president or anyone else in the administration to mislead or deceive the American people.

(Bin Laden) speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership with Iraq,

While the Palestinian people are saddened by the loss of Chairman Arafat ... it is also a moment where we can move forward, ... The big step ahead of us now is to assist the Palestinian people in getting ready for the election on the ninth of January for a new president of the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli authorities said to me earlier they would do everything they can to permit freedom of movement and access for candidates as well as for voters on election day, ... Both sides seem confident they can work out the question of people living in Jerusalem to have their ballots counted as well.

He was a man whom I came to know and trust, a cherished colleague and friend, ... He embodied the finest qualities of wisdom and compassion ... and brought the people of Macedonia from crisis and division to recovery and tolerance.

He is the democratically elected president, but he has had difficulties in his presidency. And ... whether or not he is able to effectively continue as president is something that he will have to examine, ... I hope that he will examine it carefully considering the interests of the Haitian people.

Reconciliation must begin now, ... The people of Angola have suffered enough.

Afghanistan is in need of many things -- a police force, a new military that's committed to the Afghan people,

who have done little to alleviate the suffering of the Afghan people, and indeed have done much to exacerbate it.

I can assure you that President Bush understands the commitment and obligations that we have made to our NATO allies and to the people in the region, ... This will be done carefully, it will be done as a part of an overall review of all of our commitments overseas

It once again shows that there are these murderers and terrorists, former regime elements in Iraq, that don't want to see an election, ... They want to go back to the tyranny of the Saddam Hussein regime, and that's not going to happen. The Iraqi people don't want it to happen.

but the one thing I can assure you of is that it will be held in trust for the Iraqi people, to benefit the Iraqi people. That is a legal obligation that the occupying power will have.

put forward our comprehensive plan to return full sovereignty to the Iraqi people.

You can take that message to the Afghan people that the American people are committed.

And how jihad has to be practiced in the context of helping people education, health care, taking care of people.

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.

He's been a failed leader for the Palestinian people, and his many years of leadership have not brought the Palestinian people one step or one day closer to a Palestinian state, ... He didn't change we moved on.

When this administration took office the president committed to the American people and the people of the world that we would do everything we could about it,

ways to communicate with the people of Iran to convince them that the policies their leaders have been following are inappropriate.

He still has that authority, that mantle of leadership given to him by the Palestinian people, and we will continue to work with him,

There are these fissures within the Palestinian leadership that suggest maybe people are starting to realize where are we getting with the current leadership that we have, and perhaps we should consider new leaders,

Free trade is a powerful instrument of freedom, ... A vibrant and dynamic market is the most powerful force for economic growth and sustainable development. This is not ideology talking. Facts speak for themselves and they tell us that free trade means bread -- bread for the neediest of our people.

We want to help the people of North Korea who are in such difficulty now, ... verifiable way.

I want to assure you that you will continue to enjoy the full support of the American government and the American people as you move forward to undertake the efforts that the Ukrainian people are expecting,

Chairman Arafat is the head of the Palestinian Authority and he is recognized ... as the leader of the Palestinian people,

I think it would give some hope and inspiration to the people of the region that we are now moving forward on the road map toward the vision that the president had,

There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at the time that some of those sources were not good, and shouldn't be relied upon, and they didn't speak up,

The oil fields are the property of the Iraqi people, and if a coalition of forces goes into those oil fields, we would want to protect those fields and make sure that they are used to benefit the people of Iraq and are not destroyed or damaged by a failing regime on the way out the door,

In my meetings with Chairman Arafat, I made it clear that he and the Palestinian Authority can no longer equivocate, ... They must decide, as the rest of the world has decided, that terrorism must end. Chairman Arafat must take that message to his people.

For the past two weeks now, we have had a major effort under way within the State Department to get to the bottom of the data error and determine what corrections were appropriate and to make those corrections so we could show those corrections to the American people,

The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for men and women, ... I think that is what makes us such a draw for nations around the world. People come to the United States to be educated, to become Americans. We are a country of countries and we touch every country, and every country in world touches us.

You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations and problems. You'll own it all.

When we get reports back from Mr. Tenet and from Ambassador Burns and when we consult with a lot of other people, we will start to integrate all this information and see what next steps should be taken,

Kenya is an example to the rest of the region of what could be accomplished with elections that allow people to make a choice as to how they will be governed, ... We look forward to the election that will be taking place in 2002 for the people of Kenya to once again come forward and express their desires with respect to how they will be governed.

I don't think the American people should be getting the impression their president and their government was not hard at work on this from day one,