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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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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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 don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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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 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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.
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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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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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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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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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Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.
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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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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