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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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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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Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.
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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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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'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.
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One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.
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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 reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military.
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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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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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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
Leon Panetta