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Colin Powell
Information about this person was last updated on Saturday, January 21, 2012.
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former secretary of state (en - 167)
secretary of state (en - 246)
us-außenminister (de - 72)
außenminister (de - 63)
secretario de estado (es - 40)
secretário de estado (pt - 33)
ameriškega državnega sekretarja (sl - 15)
secretário de estado americano (pt - 14)
us-kollegen (de - 15)
secrétaire d'etat américain (fr - 14)
secretario de estado norteamericano (es - 12)
minister van buitenlandse zaken (nl - 24)
ameriški državni sekretar (sl - 10)
predecessor (en - 23)
secrétaire d'etat (fr - 16)
secretário de estado norte-americano (pt - 8)
us- außenminister (de - 6)
außenministers (de - 10)
us-außenministers (de - 6)
utrikesminister (sv - 12)
secretário de estado dos eua (pt - 6)
državni sekretar (sl - 7)
amerikaanse minister van buitenlandse zaken (nl - 4)
državnega sekretarja (sl - 5)
- former secretary of state (en - 3)
former american secretary of state (en - 3)
aussenminister (de - 6)
secretary (en - 12)
general (de,pt - 12)
secretario de estado estadounidense (es - 3)
#NATO.# Former Secretary of State (en - 2)
boss, former secretary of state (en - 2)
секретар (bg - 4)
americano (it - 4)
voorganger (nl - 3)
minister (nl,sl - 4)
former (en - 7)
amtskollegen (de - 2)
vorgänger (de - 2)
сша (ru - 2)
ms (en - 2)
boss (en - 2)
chef (fr - 2)
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July 7, 2011 - July 10, 2011
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February 21, 2011 - May 3, 2011
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August 30, 2011 - September 4, 2011
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January 21, 2011 - April 20, 2011
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March 10, 2011 - March 10, 2011
Atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 (Reuters)
December 16, 2011 - December 16, 2011
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April 5, 2011 - April 5, 2011
Iran hits back over nuclear report
November 14, 2011 - November 14, 2011
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August 25, 2011 - August 25, 2011
Donald Rumsfeld on What Went Right (The Daily Beast)
February 9, 2011 - February 9, 2011
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January 25, 2011 - January 25, 2011
India's major cities on terror alert
July 17, 2011 - July 17, 2011
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January 9, 2012 - January 9, 2012
Osama bin Laden killed by US troops in Pakistan
May 6, 2011 - May 6, 2011
CIA boss to be new US defence secretary
April 27, 2011 - April 27, 2011
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September 9, 2011 - September 9, 2011
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March 11, 2011 - March 11, 2011
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[-believes]: Unless you feel free to explain your views, and you hear somebody argue against them, it is not a fair process.
finanznachrichten 04-JAN-12
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[-blamed]: Meet the Press,
washtimes 29-NOV-11
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[-said]: The media has to help us. The media loves this game where everyone is on the extreme. It makes for great television. It makes for great chatter. It makes for great talk shows all day long with commentators commenting on commentators about the latest little mini-flap up on Capitol Hill,
upi 27-NOV-11
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[-said]: Compromise is how this country was founded. And unless two people in disagreement with each other don't find away to reach out to one another and make compromises, you don't get a consensus that allows you to move forward,
upi 27-NOV-11
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[-said]: But as the IAEA also said, they're not sure whether or not they're going to go all the way forward with a nuclear device,
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[-told]: I think the U.S. ought to keep the sanctions on and try to increase the pressure on the Iranian regime,
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[-added]: I've always been under the view of let's try to see if we can stop them as they go up the level… of enrichment so when they get to the level of making power, if that's all they say they're interested in doing, then let's see if we can not put a firebreak in at that point so we don't have to see what comes after,
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[told:]: This Week
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[-said]: I never had any doubt that Iran was working on the technology associated with nuclear programs and development of a device,
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[-added]: The military option is always there, but I'm not sure how good that military option ultimately is if they're digging and burying,
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[-also said]: And if you had a military option that did nothing more than delay them for a few years, would that be worth the other political costs associated with the use of a military option?
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[-said]: I don't know if it's inevitably going to get a weapon or whether it's totally committed to getting a weapon,
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[-said]: This kind of discussion seems to me just raises the temperature and makes it that much more difficult to try to find a solution to the problem,
ABCnews 14-NOV-11
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[ said]: We are very proud to receive this fantastic award, which is a wonderful endorsement of all the hard work and dedication of our staff in keeping the lodges and the surrounding grounds in such great shape for our guests to enjoy whilst here on holiday,
newswales 07-NOV-11
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[ said]: No battle plan survives contact with the enemy,
iol 27-OCT-11
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[-says]: Tensions in Kashmir threaten our efforts in Afghanistan and are a flashpoint for possible Indo-Pak conflict. On October 1, a terrorist attack on the state assembly in Kashmir resulted in 38 civilian deaths. India subsequently shelled positions in Pakistan. XXXXXXX,
indiatimes 12-SEP-11
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[-said]: It turned out, as we discovered later, that a lot of sources that had been attested to by the intelligence community were wrong,
aljazeera 11-SEP-11
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[-wrote]: In Islamabad, I raised our proliferation concerns, XXXXXXX with Musharraf, underscoring that lifting the nuclear-related sanctions did not signal a lessening of our concerns or a green light to further nuclear or missile procurements,
economictimes 11-SEP-11
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[-says]: Tensions in Kashmir threaten our efforts in Afghanistan and are a flashpoint for possible Indo-Pakistani conflict. On October 1, a terrorist attack on the state assembly in Kashmir resulted in 38 civilian deaths. India subsequently shelled positions in Pakistan. XXXXXXX,
economictimes 11-SEP-11
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[-said]: And so when I presented that information, it was information that the president believed in; information that my colleagues in government believed in.
aljazeera 11-SEP-11
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[-said]: From what I've read in the newspapers and seen on television it's essentially a rehash of events of seven or eight years ago,
CBSnews 02-SEP-11
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[-added]: in due course,
npr 01-SEP-11
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[-told]: I think Dick overshot the runway,
csmonitor 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: It was clear by 2004 that the team was not functioning as a team,
csmonitor 30-AUG-11
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[-also said]: And we had different views, and not just views, not views that could be reconciled. And so I said to the president that I would be leaving at the end of the year, after the election, and he ought to take a look at his whole team to try to resolve all these issues.
csmonitor 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: My head isn't exploding,
scmp 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: [Cheney] takes great credit for my resignation in 2004,
scmp 30-AUG-11
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[-also criticized]: And in fact, it's the kind of headline I would expect to come out of a gossip columnist or the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write. It's not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from a former vice president of the United States of America.
montrealgazette 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: tries to lay it all off on Mr. Rich Armitage and the State Department and me,
montrealgazette 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: The new president is going to have to fix the reputation that we've left with the rest of the world,
montrealgazette 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: There's nothing wrong with saying you disagree, but it's not necessary to take these kinds of barbs and then try to pump a book up by saying heads will be exploding,
montrealgazette 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: That's quite a visual,
montrealgazette 30-AUG-11
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[-asked]: Well, who went to the United Nations and, regrettably, with a lot of false information?
montrealgazette 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: My head isn't exploding, I haven't noticed any other heads exploding in Washington, D.C.,
ChinaPost 30-AUG-11
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[-told]: We had different views,
ChinaPost 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: The president knows that I told him what I thought about every issue of the day,
ChinaPost 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: They are cheap shots,
ChinaPost 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: (Cheney) takes great credit for my resignation in 2004. Well, President Bush and I had always agreed that I would leave at the end of 2004,
ChinaPost 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: I gave the president my best advice.
CBSnews 30-AUG-11
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[-accused]: but a balanced account, I think, also required me to put down what my opinion was, and I think that's what I've done.
CBSnews 30-AUG-11
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[-said]: The fact of the matter is when Mr. Armitage realized that he was the source for Bob Novak's column that caused all the difficulty and he called me immediately, two days after the president launched the investigation, and what we did was we called the Justice Department, they sent over the FBI, the FBI had all the information about Mr. Armitage's participation in this immediately,
CBSnews 29-AUG-11
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[-said]: That’s quite a visual,
latimes 29-AUG-11
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[-also criticized]: And in fact, it’s the kind of headline I would expect to come out of a gossip columnist or the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write. It’s not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from a former vice president of the United States of America.
latimes 29-AUG-11
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[-said]: He's taken the same shots at Condi, with an almost condescending tone,
CBSnews 29-AUG-11
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[-said]: I'm not going to attribute any emotion to Mr. Cheney in the writing of his book, but it was clear in 2004 that the team wasn't functioning as a team,
CBSnews 29-AUG-11
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[-said]: There’s nothing wrong with saying you disagree, but it’s not necessary to take these kinds of barbs and then try to pump a book up by saying heads will be exploding,
latimes 29-AUG-11
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[-argued]: -- in which the identify of former CIA operative Valerie Plame was revealed to journalist Robert Novak and published in the Washington Post.
CBSnews 29-AUG-11
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[-described]: Face the Nation
CBSnews 29-AUG-11
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[-said]: It was not a smoothly functioning team at that point. ... I felt that I had to leave the administration. And frankly, I always intended to just serve one term.
CBSnews 29-AUG-11
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[ said]: During my years on the board of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, I never failed to be impressed by the thoughtful, strategic leadership demonstrated by Roxanne Spillett ,
finanznachrichten 16-JUN-11
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[ said]: They are our sons and daughters; husbands, friends and sweethearts,
finanznachrichten 28-MAY-11
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[-told]: Success isn't what you achieve in life, success is what you do every day,
CBSnews 07-MAY-11
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[-said]: It's P-O-W-E-L-L and don't you all forget it.
CBSnews 07-MAY-11
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[ said]: Consider Al-Qaeda as something of a large holding company. And the head of that holding company is Osama bin Laden,
CBSnews 06-MAY-11
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[told:]: I wish we could have gotten this guy on Sept. 12, the day after 9/11 and I'm sure that everybody was disappointed, but these things take time. It is not that simple to chase somebody around in that kind of terrain and find them with reliable information, but he was found. It took 10 years, but he was found, and he was killed.
ibtimes 03-MAY-11
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[-said]: He's dead. We all know that,
cnn 03-MAY-11
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[-said]: There will be skeptics out there as you know whether in the Middle East (or elsewhere),
cnn 03-MAY-11
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[-said]: Even if you show the picture, there'll be sceptics,
smh 03-MAY-11
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[ said]: Did nobody else notice this?,
cnn 03-MAY-11
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[-said]: And in order to put that to rest, it may be necessary to release some of the pictures or video or the DNA test to prevent that from happening.
cnn 03-MAY-11
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[-said]: It's not enough to get one individual, although we'll start with that one individual,
cnn 02-MAY-11
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[ insisted]: This is my last year,
montrealgazette 01-MAY-11
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[-urge]: I wish everybody had the kind of upbringing that I did. I was not allowed to fail...I became a general because of my mentors.
newsday 12-APR-11
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[-said]: I was just an average kid but I had this wonderful family,
newsday 12-APR-11
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[ said]: I hope that Col. Gadhafi will soon come to the realization that murdering his own people is not a solution and that it is time for him to step aside,
AP 22-MAR-11
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[ said]: The most powerful force at work today in the world is economic development and creation of wealth,
AP 22-MAR-11
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[-said]: What we’re giving you is facts and intelligence based on solid sources,
russiatoday 21-MAR-11
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[-said]: Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting-edge services and content that Americans love,
latimes 16-MAR-11
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[-said]: We've got to knock this nonsense off. Barack Hussein Obama, as I have said before, was born an American. He is an American. He's never been anything but an American,
cnn 05-MAR-11
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[ said]: I made the point that there is not a good America or a bad America. There is not small-town America is good and big-town America is bad. Don't tell me that I lived in a bad America because I was born in Harlem and raised in the South Bronx,
cnn 05-MAR-11
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[-said]: the source called Curveball was totally unreliable,
arabpolitical 18-FEB-11
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[-said]: The source was an eyewitness, an Iraqi chemical engineer who supervised one of these facilities,
lebanonews 18-FEB-11
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[-has previously expressed]: I want there to be an inquiry so that people will know the truth. So many lies have been told about me over the years. I finally want the truth to come out.
guardian 17-FEB-11
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[-told]: Saddam did not (allow) freedom in our land. There are no other political parties. You have to believe what Saddam says, and do what Saddam wants. And I don’t accept that. I have to do something for my country. So I did this and I am satisfied, because there is no dictator in Iraq any more.
minivannews 17-FEB-11
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[-told]: It has been known for several years that the source called Curveball was totally unreliable,
CBSnews 17-FEB-11
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[-told]: He actually was present during biological agent production runs and was also at the site when an accident occurred in 1998,
smh 16-FEB-11
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[-said]: We have first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels,
guardian 15-FEB-11
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[-said]: I think he's got a way to go,
ChinaPost 25-JAN-11
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[-said]: I think he has reached out to countries around the world and has developed good relations with countries around the world,
ChinaPost 25-JAN-11
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[-said]: All sorts of nastiness. And it is not just politicians who are doing this to each other, and, frankly, politics has always been a contact sport in this country. But with all of the cable channels and talk radio and blogs, especially blogs, where people can be anonymous with their nastiness, I think has caused a level of coarseness in our society that we've all got to think about.
ChinaPost 25-JAN-11
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[says that:]: Superman
khaleejtimes 24-JAN-11
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[-said]: All sorts of nastiness. And it is not just politicians who are doing this to each other, and, frankly, politics has always been a contact sport in this country . but with all of the cable channels and talk radio and blogs, especially blogs, where people can be anonymous with their nastiness, I think has caused a level of coarseness in our society that we've all got to think about.
indiatimes 23-JAN-11
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