Leon Panetta Quotes

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

Leon Panetta

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• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Latin America

• There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Curious

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• Every time, I try to make something different.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Time
  • Different
  • Try

• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Terrorism
  • Roots
  • Call

• Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Leader
  • First
  • Union

• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Quality
  • Argument
  • Effective

• The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Problem
  • Rap
  • Nobody

• I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • Want
  • Feel

• The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Fact
  • Hot
  • Fingers

• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • You
  • Grandmother
  • Charity

• When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Country
  • She
  • Child

• I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
  • Writing
  • Losing

• I'm actually really good at vacuuming, and I don't even mind it so much. I hate dusting with a passion, and I am not a fan of tidying up, but vacuuming I can do. And mopping floors: I'm not bad at that, either.

  

  Bronte Campbell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mind

• Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Today
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.

  

  Andrew Chan
  • Friend
  • Brother
  • Look

• We've always known that music is good for improving your mood.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Music
  • Mood

• When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office - lots of political bluster and little accountability.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Business
  • Political
  • Accountability

• In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

  

  Leon Panetta