The 82+ Leon Panetta Quotes

I Don't Think There's Any Question That America Is Safer As A Result Of The Bin Laden Operation.

Clearly, Russia Has Lied To The World About What's Going On In Ukraine. They Have Clearly Violated The Cease-fire Agreements.

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.

Russians Understand Strength, And If They Feel That Their Opponents Are Weak, They Will Take Advantage Of It.

The One Thing That I Remember From All Of My Intelligence Briefings And My Dealings With The Russians Is That When You Deal With The Russians, You Have To Deal With Them From Strength, Not From Weakness.

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 Country Feels.

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.

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 Would Be Disastrous For Our National Defense And Very Frankly For A Lot Of Very Important Domestic Programs. They Have A Responsibility To Come Together, Find The Money Necessary To De-trigger Sequester.

I Think Soon After I Became Director Of The Cia - President Obama Pulled Me Into The Oval Office And Said: 'look, I Just Want You To Know That Your Top Priority Is To Go After Osama Bin Laden.'

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.

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.

The Terrorism From 9/11 Has Metastasized. It's Metastasized In Iraq And Syria, In Nigeria, In Somalia, In Yemen And In Other Places In North Africa. We Need A Very Comprehensive Strategy To Deal With That Threat.