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I don't engage in hypotheticals.

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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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 don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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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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I'm not big on commissions.
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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
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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 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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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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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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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