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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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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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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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The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
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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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In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.
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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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The Taliban is resilient.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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I want you and the people of Israel to know a few things that have not and will not change. The United States stands firmly with Israel, and we have a rock solid commitment to the security of Israel and to the security of its citizens.
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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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Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
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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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