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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
Political Scientist
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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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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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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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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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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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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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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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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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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military.
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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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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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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.
Leon Panetta