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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
Leon Panetta
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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.
Leon Panetta
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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 suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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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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The Taliban is resilient.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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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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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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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'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Leon Panetta