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I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

Leon Panetta

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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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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'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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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 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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The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
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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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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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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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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
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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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China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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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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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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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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