Colin Powell: “If I had my way, I wouldn't close Guantanamo tomorrow. I'd close it this afternoon.”

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.

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…

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.

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…