“I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.”

— Colin Powell

Upon hearing that President Bush was "sleeping like a baby" on the eve of war with Iraq, as quoted in "The Tragedy of Colin Powell" (19 February 2004) http://slate.msn.com/id/2095756/.
2000s

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Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937

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