Colin Powell cytaty
Colin Powell
Data urodzenia: 5. Kwiecień 1937
Colin Luther Powell – generał armii amerykańskiej, przewodniczący Kolegium Połączonych Szefów Sztabów , amerykański polityk, doradca prezydenta USA ds. bezpieczeństwa narodowego , sekretarz stanu Stanów Zjednoczonych .
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„Nawet demokracja sterowana może być demokracją.“
— Colin Powell
Źródło: Radio Echo Moskwy, 4 lutego 2004
„Dyscyplina, celowość działania, koleżeństwo, poczucie przynależności – to właśnie chciałem osiągnąć.“
— Colin Powell
Źródło: Nigel Cawthorne, Dowódcy i generałowie. Prawdziwe historie, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa, 2014, s. 206.
„Nie będziemy po raz drugi płacić za tę samą piłkę i nawiązywać nowych rozmów z Koreą Północną na temat jej wojskowego programu jądrowego.“
— Colin Powell
Źródło: „Washington Post”, 10 stycznia 2003
„W amerykańskim stanowisku nie chodzi o to, żeby znaleźć powód dla wojny. Gdyby USA nie były zainteresowane pokojowym rozwiązaniem, prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych nie jeździłby do siedziby ONZ, żeby tam wygłaszać przemówienie i nie marnowałby ostatniego półtora miesiąca. (…) Ja też miałbym mniej siwych włosów, jakby nam był potrzebny tylko pretekst do wojny.“
— Colin Powell
Źródło: „Kommiersant”, 31 października 2002
„Rosyjscy generałowie pytali mnie, kiedy rozpadał się Związek Radziecki: my rozwiązujemy Układ Warszawski, więc dlaczego chcecie utrzymać NATO? A ja im na to: niełatwo to zrobić, kiedy ustawia się kolejka krajów, które chcą do sojuszu przystąpić.“
— Colin Powell
Źródło: „Rzeczpospolita”, 4 kwietnia 2003
„Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector.“
— Colin Powell
Context: Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of preserving the rights of people.
And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, "Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us"? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are.
MTV Global Discussion https://web.archive.org/web/20020220234413/http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/02/15/powell.mtv/index.html (14 February 2002).
„There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power.“
— Colin Powell
Context: There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power. But what we have found over the decades is that unless you do have hard power — and here I think you're referring to military power — then sometimes you are faced with situations that you can't deal with.
I mean, it was not soft power that freed Europe. It was hard power. And what followed immediately after hard power? Did the United States ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe? No. Soft power came in the Marshall Plan. Soft power came with American GIs who put their weapons down once the war was over and helped all those nations rebuild. We did the same thing in Japan.
So our record of living our values and letting our values be an inspiration to others I think is clear. And I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of or apologize for with respect to what America has done for the world.
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.
Response to a question by George Carey (a former Archbishop of Canterbury), after the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (26 January 2003), as to whether the US had given due consideration to the use of "soft power" vs "hard power" against the regime of Saddam Hussein; this has sometimes been portrayed as an accusation by an Archbishop of Canterbury that the United States was engaged in "empire building", in which Powell's response has been paraphrased:
„It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.“
— Colin Powell
Context: Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.
As quoted by Ambassador Cameron R. Hume in a speech on U.S. Government Initiatives in South Africa http://pretoria.usembassy.gov/wwwhambhume020918.html at the American Chamber of Commerce, Johannesburg, South Africa (18 September 2002).
