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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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 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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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 is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.
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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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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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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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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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