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Colin Powell

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June 24, 2025

if you break it, you own it

Colin Powell

Feb 17, 2022

What I want to bring to your attention today is the potentially much more sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist network, a Nexus that combines classic terrorist organizations and modern methods of murder.

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Dec 8, 2021

What I did say to him, once you break it, you`re going to own it. And we`re going to be responsible for 26 million people standing there looking at us.

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Oct 19, 2021

bad news doesn't get better with time.

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Oct 18, 2021

It says more about America than what it says about me.

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Oct 18, 2021

Now, to his credit, Colin Powell repented for the monstrous deception of the Iraq war.

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Oct 18, 2021

I think he is a transformational figure. He is a new generation, coming into the world, onto the world stage, on the American stage. And for that reason, I`ll be voting for Senator Barack Obama.

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Oct 18, 2021

I regret it. I will always regret. It was a terrible mistake on all our parts.

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Oct 18, 2021

I believe I have a bond of trust with the American people.

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Oct 18, 2021

100 years ago, a young immigrant left a dirt farm in Jamaica and set out for America. Three years later, a ship pulled into New York harbor, and a young Jamaican woman gazed up at the Statue of Liberty for the first time. They became my…

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Oct 18, 2021

The correct answer is he is not a Muslim. He’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no, that’s not America.

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Oct 18, 2021

Today, we are a country today we are a country divided. And we have a president doing everything in this power to make it that way. And keep us that way. What a difference it would make to have a president who unites us, who restores our…

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