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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.
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
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Leon Edward Panetta
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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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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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The Taliban is resilient.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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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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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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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 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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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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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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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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In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.
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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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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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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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