I don't engage in hypotheticals.

- Leon Panetta

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

- Leon Panetta

The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control t…

- Leon Panetta

We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now en…

- Leon Panetta

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no mi…

- Leon Panetta

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

- Leon Panetta

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 we…

- Leon Panetta

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

- Leon Panetta

The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack.

- Leon Panetta