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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
Leon Panetta
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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 terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.
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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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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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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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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.
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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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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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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.
Leon Panetta