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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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Political Scientist
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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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 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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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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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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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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
Leon Panetta