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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
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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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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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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 don't engage in hypotheticals.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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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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It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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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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Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.
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