| | What the Secretary Has Been SayingSecretary Powell very strongly believes that he has a responsibility "to talk to the American people about what we are doing in their name, what President Bush is doing with his foreign policy. And the way to do that is not just with us giving speeches, but to communicate through the media." Through this web page, the Bureau of Public Affairs will communicate with Americans and the media to release all speeches, testimony, briefings, statements, and other remarks from the Secretary of State as soon as they are available. (Also see daily press briefings by the Department Spokesman and other releases from the Press Relations Office.) | | | Highlights | Resolve for 2004
(Op-Ed in the New York Times): "Freedom, prosperity and peace are not separate principles, or separable policy goals. Each reinforces the other, so serving any one requires an integrated policy that serves all three. The challenges are many, for the world is full of trouble. But it is also full of opportunities, and we are resolved to seize every one of them." [full text]
Soft Power, the Value of Democracy
At the World Economic Forum, in response to George Carey, a former Archibishop of Canterbury, Secretary Powell said :
"...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 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....
"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last 100 years . . .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 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." [excerpts] [full text] |
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