Quote by Leon Panetta
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do o

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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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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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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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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In these troubled, uncertain times, we dont need more command and control we need better means to engage everyones intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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Common sense is not so common. – Voltaire

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I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly. – Cristina Kirchner

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Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. – Markus Wolf

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