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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
Lawyer
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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 mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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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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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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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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 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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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 consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.
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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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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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