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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.
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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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