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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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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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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 usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.
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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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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 mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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 know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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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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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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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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We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
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