Leon Panetta Quotes

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.
Leon Panetta

Almost, Cut, Budget

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
Leon Panetta

Large, Presence, Smaller

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. That's really the measure of success for the United States.
Leon Panetta

Success, Winning, Country

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.
Leon Panetta

Knowing, Forces, Harm

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

Director, Horrible, Awful

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.
Leon Panetta

Learned, Jobs, Washington

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: June 28, 1938

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