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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
Politician
Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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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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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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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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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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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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The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.
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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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