Yay, Colin Powell! So quick to set the record straight with regard to Pottery Barn's actual breakage policy: If he had wanted to warn the president off of his Iraq plans with a reference to "the Pottery Barn rule," the correct admonition is not "You break it, you buy it," but rather, as Powell told Ted Koppel, "You drop it, and it's an accident, you do not have to pay for it."
Iraq: Do You Have a Receipt for That?
Iraq: Do You Have a Receipt for That?
Iraq: Do You Have a Receipt for That?
Yay, Colin Powell! So quick to set the record straight with regard to Pottery Barn's actual breakage policy: If he had wanted to warn the president off of his Iraq plans with a reference to "the Pottery Barn rule," the correct admonition is not "You break it, you buy it," but rather, as Powell told Ted Koppel, "You drop it, and it's an accident, you do not have to pay for it."