Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. — 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
