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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

Leon Panetta

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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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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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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An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
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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 last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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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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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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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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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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