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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

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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 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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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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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 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 what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.
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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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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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