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

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
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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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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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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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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.
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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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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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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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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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 don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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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.
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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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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 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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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