Leon Panetta Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We continue to be bullish on China.
-
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
-
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
-
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
-
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
-
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
-
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
-
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
-
I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
-
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
-
I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
-
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
-
I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
-
Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
-
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
-
I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
-
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
-
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
-
My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
-
The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
-
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
-
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
-
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
