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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 don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.
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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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