Colin Powell: “Yes, I'm the national security adviser. I'm black. And watch; I can do the job.”

I am worried that this action has made us less safe but I am also worried about the reputational damage that it has done.

How can you trust anything that coming from this campaign? How can you trust Mitt Romney to fight for the middle class? You can't trust anything coming out of this campaign.

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.

A great man left us today and went to his reward. Nelson Mandela, Madiba led his people to freedom and his example inspired the world. I was privileged to know him.