Leon Panetta Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.”

“Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.”

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

“I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.”

“The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here.”

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

“An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.”

“It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.”

“I don't usually comment on columnists' ideas of what I'm thinking. That's a dangerous game to get into.”

“I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.”