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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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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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'm not big on commissions.
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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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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.
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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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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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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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