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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Lawyer
Political Scientist
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with the Russians, you have to deal with them from strength, not from weakness.
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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 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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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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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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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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