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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.

Leon Panetta

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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Lawyer
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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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 think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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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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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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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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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
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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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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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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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