I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

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• Colin Powell:

  So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

• Colin Powell:

  In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a norma

• Colin Powell:

  If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within

• Colin Powell:

  Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining

• Colin Powell:

  You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nat

• Colin Powell:

  It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them.

• Colin Powell:

  You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the gove

• Colin Powell:

  In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 201

• Colin Powell:

  When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

• Colin Powell:

  In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far