We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun. — 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
Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people,… — 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
The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my… — 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
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
