Leon Panetta Quotes
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The Taliban is resilient.
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She is smart. She is principled. She is tough, and she is ready. Hillary is the single most experienced and prepared person who has ever run for president.
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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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Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.
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The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
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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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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
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Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.
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I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
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Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.
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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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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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The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.
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The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.
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You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
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When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
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If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.
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I don't engage in hypotheticals.
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There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
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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.