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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Lawyer
Political Scientist
Politician
Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
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I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.
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The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.
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It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
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China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.
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Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.
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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.
Leon Panetta