Leon Panetta

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.

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.

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.