Leon Panetta World Quotations

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

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.

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

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

Obama really does recognize the threats that are out there; I think he understands the world. He understands the role of America in that troubled world.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.