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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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Leon Edward Panetta
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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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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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 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 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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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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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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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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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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