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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.
Leon Panetta
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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
Former Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency
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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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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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Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.
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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.
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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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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 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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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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I'm not big on commissions.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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