"I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt."

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Source : "The Secret History" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 22, 2009.

Leon Panetta

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.”
“Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.”
“We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.”

Source : "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.
“When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.”

Source : Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami (1993). “The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World”, Tarcher
“What a plague love is!”
“I have three siblings. My sister makes music. My older brother is a classical conductor, and my younger brother is a mixing engineer.”
“On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.”
“I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.”

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