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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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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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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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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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead

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I think the world is run by C students. – Al McGuire

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Im much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. – Michael Scheuer

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If they had said my writing wasnt good enough, fair enough, thats an opinion. But to say its too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young. – Tanith Lee

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