Leon Panetta Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.