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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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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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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 Taliban is resilient.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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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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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
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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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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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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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I'm not big on commissions.
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