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Colin Luther Powell, bol 65. minister zahraničných vecí, slúžiaci od 20. januára 2001 do 26. januára 2005 vo vláde Georga W. Busha. Nominovaný bol 16. decembra 2000 a vo funkcii potom potvrdený Senátom USA.

Powell z funkcie odstúpil, Bush jeho žiadosť prijal 12. novembra 2004 , ale ostal vo funkcii pokiaľ senát nepotvrdil nomináciu Condoleezzy Riceovej.

Powell vystúpil 5. februára 2003 na plenárnom zasadnutí Bezpečnostnej rady Organizácie Spojených národov s prezentáciou argumentujúcou v prospech vojenskej invázie do Iraku. Odvolávajúc sa na početných anonymných irackých prebehlíkov tvrdil, že "nemôže byť pochýb o tom, že Saddám Husajn má biologické zbrane a možnosti rýchlo ich produkovať viac, oveľa viac." Powell tiež uviedol, že podľa neho "úplne bez pochybností" Saddám získava kľúčové komponenty pre výrobu jadrových zbraní. Avšak už o dva dni britský Channel 4 News oznámil, že tajné dokumenty odovzdané Veľkej Británii, ktoré Powell označoval počas svojho vystúpenia ako dôveryhodné boli zostavené na základe starého materiálu, ktorý kopíroval esej amerického postgraduálneho študenta Ibrahima al-Marashiho. Powell tiež tvrdil, že Irak spolupracuje s Usáma bin Ládinom a v Afganistane cvičí členov al-Káidy.

20 marca 2003 začala invázia do Iraku. 30. septembra 2004 skupina poverená preverením údajov používaných pred začatím zásahu vo svojom záverečnom stanovisku vyhlásila: „ISG nenašla žiadne dôkazy o tom, že Saddám Husajn vlastnil zásoby zbraní hromadného ničenia v roku 2003..."

Powell sám označil svoje vystúpenie na pôde OSN, ktoré iniciovalo Tretiu vojna v Perzskom zálive za najväčšiu škvrnu na svojej kariére.Jeho rodičia pochádzajú z Jamajky, pričom obaja majú zmiešaný černošský a škótsky pôvod. Wikipedia  

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“There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.”

Remarks to the United Nations Security Council (5 February 2003) http://web.archive.org/web/20050204130309/http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/17300.htm; in an interview (September 2005) http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Politics/story?id=1105979&page=1 with Barbara Walters, Powell was asked about the Security Council speech and responded that it was a "blot" on his record… "it will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now."
2000s

“There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.”

Interview with CNN (27 October 2004), as quoted in "Warnings by Powell to Taiwan Provoke a Diplomatic Dispute" in The New York Times (28 October 2004) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDB123DF93BA15753C1A9629C8B63.
2000s

“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.”

Epigram wrongly attributed to Thucydides kept in the office of General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Misattributed

“That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.”

Reported as a comment on "the number of Iraqi dead from the combined allied air and ground campaign" by Tyler, Patrick. "After The War; Powell Says U.S. Will Stay In Iraq 'For Some Months.'" New York Times, March 23 1991, pp. 1,4. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/23/world/after-the-war-powell-says-us-will-stay-in-iraq-for-some-months.html
2000s

“What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?”

Remark made to Joint Chiefs of Staff General Shelton regarding comments by Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld, advocating an attack on Iraq, even before the battle plan for attacking the Taliban was formulated, shortly after the “the crucial meeting took place on September 15 in the Laurel Lodge at Camp David, at which Wolfowitz made the case for action against Iraq.” [Halper, Stefan, Clarke, Johnathan, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 0-521-83834-7 hardback, 149-150]. Also see [Woodware, Bob, Bush at War, 2002, Simon and Schuster, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 0743215389, 61]. (Remark from 9/2001 shortly after 9/11).
2000s

“We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seeking.”

On Chinese and Taiwanese relations, in interview with Phoenix Television of Hong Kong (27 October 2004), as quoted in "Warnings by Powell to Taiwan Provoke a Diplomatic Dispute" in The New York Times (28 October 2004) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDB123DF93BA15753C1A9629C8B63.
2000s

“Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.”

Remark made as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcing the U.S. gulf war plan against Saddam Hussein's army. Pentagon press briefing (23 January 1991).
1990s

“There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.”

As quoted in NBC's Meet the Press http://www.thenation.com/article/when-republicans-really-were-party-lincoln/ (2013).
2010s

“You break it, you own it.”

As quoted in Plan of Attack (2004) by Bob Woodward, a book in which he was a key source, cautioning President Bush before the Iraqi war that he would be responsible for the fate of the Iraqi's after the fall of the Hussein regime.
2000s

“I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground, and scour Iraq from one corner to the other, and find no weapons of mass destruction?”

Quoted by Lawrence Wilkerson in Breaking Ranks Larry Wilkerson Attacked the Iraq War. In the Process, He Lost the Friendship of Colin Powell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/01/19/breaking-ranks-span-classbankheadlarry-wilkerson-attacked-the-iraq-war-in-the-process-he-lost-the-friendship-of-colin-powellspan/d1f359c6-93a0-41c1-beee-2284d6284d47/ Washington Post, by Richard Lei (19 January 2006)
2000s

“Nothing was spun to me... What really upset me more than anything else was that there were people in the intelligence community that had doubts about some of this sourcing, but those doubts never surfaced up to us.”

Powell told David Frost in a BBC television interview
Quoted in Breaking Ranks Larry Wilkerson Attacked the Iraq War. In the Process, He Lost the Friendship of Colin Powell. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/01/19/breaking-ranks-span-classbankheadlarry-wilkerson-attacked-the-iraq-war-in-the-process-he-lost-the-friendship-of-colin-powellspan/d1f359c6-93a0-41c1-beee-2284d6284d47/ Washington Post, by Richard Lei (19 January 2006)
2000s

“The people in my life made me what I am.”

Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 279

“As successes come your way, remember that you didn't do it alone. It is always we.”

Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 266

“Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don't disappoint yourself.”

Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 36

“I may be down, but never out. An infantry officer can do anything.”

Zdroj: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 6