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Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's 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 we're doing.

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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

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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.

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I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester.

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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.

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I don't engage in hypotheticals.

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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.

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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

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Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: June 28th, 1938

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