Leon Panetta: “My top priority as Secretary of Defense is to ensure the security of the American people.”

I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.

I think the United States ought to be part and parcel of any agreement to be able to provide a security assurance to make sure that Ukraine is protected from the kind of invasion that we've seen from Russia.

I think we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.