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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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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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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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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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 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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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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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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The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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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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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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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 not big on commissions.
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I want you and the people of Israel to know a few things that have not and will not change. The United States stands firmly with Israel, and we have a rock solid commitment to the security of Israel and to the security of its citizens.
Leon Panetta