Leon Panetta Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Leon Panetta
Leon Panetta Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.
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 world.
Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.
If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.
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.
In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.
Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements.
The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.
Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.
I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.
The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.
When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.
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.
I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.