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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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 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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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 don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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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In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.
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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'm not big on commissions.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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