Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
Leon Panetta
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
World
Remain
Military
United
Power
Primaries
States
Primary
Going
Strongest
Think
Message
Thinking
Messages
More quotes by Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
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
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.
Leon Panetta
I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Leon Panetta
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
Leon Panetta
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
Leon Panetta
Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
Leon Panetta
I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
Leon Panetta
The Taliban is resilient.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
Leon Panetta
You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
