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Leon Panetta: “We do not have to make a choice between fiscal security and national security.”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
We do not have to make a choice between fiscal security and national security.
Said by
Leon Panetta
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Panetta asserts that fiscal discipline and national security can coexist.

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