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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.

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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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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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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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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
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The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.
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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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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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I'm not big on commissions.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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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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.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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