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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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Leon Panetta
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 28
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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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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'm not big on commissions.
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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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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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