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The Taliban is resilient.

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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
Lawyer
Political Scientist
Politician
Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
Resilient

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I'm not big on commissions.
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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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Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.
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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.
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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 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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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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