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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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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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One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.
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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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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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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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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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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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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