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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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The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
Leon Panetta
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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 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.
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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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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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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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The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.
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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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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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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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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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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout 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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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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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
Leon Panetta