Quote by Leon Panetta
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligen

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. – Leon Panetta

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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. Thats really the measure of success for the United States. – Leon Panetta

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Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and its 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 were doing. – Leon Panetta

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Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that its much more partisan and much more divided. – Leon Panetta

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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. – Freeman Dyson

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Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we cant make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. – Jay Rockefeller

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An intellectual is a man who doesnt know how to park a bike. – Spiro T. Agnew

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. – Ernest Hemingway

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