Leon Panetta Quotes

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• When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
• 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…
• 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…
• I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve…
• Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
• 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…
• After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we…
• 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…
• Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
• An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
• Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.
• Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
• I don't engage in hypotheticals.
• I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.
• I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.
• 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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