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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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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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The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.
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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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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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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 think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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 last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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 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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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
Leon Panetta