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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
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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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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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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 Taliban is resilient.
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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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