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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.

Leon Panetta

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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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Monterey
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Leon Edward Panetta
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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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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
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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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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 suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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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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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 last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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