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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

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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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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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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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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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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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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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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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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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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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 think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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