Colin Powell

As we went about negotiating the Moscow Treaty, one of the questions foremost in my mind, as a former soldier and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was how will we address tactical nuclear weapons?

I think it's time to end this 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy.

My bottom line- answer is, the nation is still at risk. Terrorists are out there. They're trying to get through. But to suggest that, somehow, we have become much less safer because of the actions of the administration, I don't think are…

My bottom-line answer is the nation is still at risk. Terrorists are out there. They are trying to get through. But to suggest that somehow we have become much less safer because of the actions of the administration, I don't think are…

This is a country that has suffered for so long with bad governance, the destruction of their -- of their land. Cutting trees down to have charcoal so you have fuel.

If I had my way, I wouldn't close Guantanamo tomorrow. I'd close it this afternoon.

If the people of Sudan are to transform a cease-fire and an uneasy power-sharing agreement into lasting peace, we need to think of the CPA as the ongoing process stretching into the future, not as an event in the past.

I strongly support the efforts of the African Union, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and others, to bring the voices of civil society into the discussion, and particularly to ensure that women are heard.

Almost 5 years ago, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before this committee that the United States had found a consistent and widespread pattern of atrocities that constituted genocide.

We have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like military commissions. We don't need it, and it is causing us far more damage than any good we can get…

A teaching point for young people, especially. Not for Dr. Gates. But for young people, especially, is when the police are looking into something, and if you're involved in it in one way or another, cooperate. Don't make the situation more…

Yes, I'm the national security adviser. I'm black. And watch; I can do the job.