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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.

Leon Panetta

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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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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 suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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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 last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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