"I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden."

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Source : Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

Leon Panetta

#Thinking Quotes #Office Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!”

Source : Maria W. Stewart, Marilyn Richardson (1987). “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches”, p.30, Indiana University Press
“Don't want anything. Then you get everything.”
“I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.”
“A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.”
“I love being in the world of the unknown.”
“I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!...”
“There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn't have an economic and political game plan.”

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