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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
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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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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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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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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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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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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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'm not big on commissions.
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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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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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