Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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

— Leon Panetta

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

— Leon Panetta

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

— 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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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

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