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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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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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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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In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.
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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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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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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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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 don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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