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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

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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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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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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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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 suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military.
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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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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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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 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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One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
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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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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.
Leon Panetta