When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
All I can do is present what I think is in the best interest of this country and how I can best… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to:… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share
