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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.
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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Monterey
California
Leon Edward Panetta
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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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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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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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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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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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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
Leon Panetta
I don't engage in hypotheticals.
Leon Panetta
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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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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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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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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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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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 think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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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.
Leon Panetta
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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
Leon Panetta
