Leon Panetta Quotes

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Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the chall

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The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.
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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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Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
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The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.
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In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the AsiaPacific region.
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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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I don’t engage in hypotheticals.
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These days, it takes only seconds – seconds – for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
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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 know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
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I don’t think there’s any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.
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I’m not big on commissions.
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If you’re a terrorist, you’re a terrorist.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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When you’re smaller and leaner, you’re not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
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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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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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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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The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
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Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
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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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During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice.
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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
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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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