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Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily g

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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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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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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Success
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After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. – Leon Panetta

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There are two types of people — those who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am!” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.” – Frederick L. Collins

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Its tricky. Ive never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. Ive never really had a profile. So in a way I have this nothing to lose attitude. – Joel Edgerton

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But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude. – Jon Fishman

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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. – Joel Coen

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Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. Its just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And its also an affirmation of faith in their country. – Simon Hoggart

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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. – Edward Sapir

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I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way. – Anthony Horowitz

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