Quote by Leon Panetta
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough t

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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War
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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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Attitude
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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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Intelligence
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What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. – Margaret Thatcher

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Success

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport. – Ian Botham

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Success

All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies whats there. – Kevin Smith

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Success

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein

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Success

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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. – Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. – George Iles

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