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Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
My whole life has been dedicated to public service.
Leon Panetta
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 ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
Leon Panetta
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
Leon Panetta
The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
Leon Panetta
Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
Leon Panetta
I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.
Leon Panetta
These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
Leon Panetta
I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
Leon Panetta
The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.
Leon Panetta
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.
Leon Panetta
When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
Leon Panetta
We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.
Leon Panetta
The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.
Leon Panetta
The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
Leon Panetta
My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.
Leon Panetta
One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.
Leon Panetta
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 our influence and interests.
Leon Panetta
Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.
Leon Panetta
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