Words matter. These are the best Leon Panetta Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
I’m not big on commissions.
You know, one thing I’ve learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that’s what I’m doing as secretary of defense.
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.
The United States, and the president’s made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That’s a red line for us. And it’s a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here.
If you’re a terrorist, you’re a terrorist.
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States.
Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.
Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.
The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.
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.
Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.
The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.
I’m going to give people the benefit of the doubt.
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.
I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
The Taliban is resilient.
Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
Al Qaeda still remains a threat.
The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.
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.
Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.
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.
There’s no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.
The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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 to regain any territory that they’ve lost. We’ve seen levels of violence going down.
I don’t engage in hypotheticals.
Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.
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.
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.
When you’re smaller and leaner, you’re not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
