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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
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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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Al Qaeda still remains a 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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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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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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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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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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The Taliban is resilient.
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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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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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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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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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