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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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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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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.
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I want you and the people of Israel to know a few things that have not and will not change. The United States stands firmly with Israel, and we have a rock solid commitment to the security of Israel and to the security of its citizens.
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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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When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
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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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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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.
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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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I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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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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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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