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> [Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/bogging-down-large-armies-in-historically-complex-dangerous-areas/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

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## More by Chuck Hagel

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/when-you-re-dealing-in-situations-that-are-uncontrollable-and/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/closing-guantanamo-bay-is-not-a-military-solution-the-closing-of-that/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [We must prepare for everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/we-must-prepare-for-everything/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/desperate-men-do-desperate-things-when-you-take-hope-away-and-that-s/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/the-president-of-the-united-states-is-the-commander-in-chief-and-the/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/the-israeli-people-must-be-free-to-live-in-peace-and-security/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/in-a-general-way-if-one-cannot-attribute-to-the-jew-the-whole/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/institutions-are-imperfect-governments-surely-are-people-are/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/no-one-individual-vote-no-one-individual-quote-or-no-one-individual/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/we-live-in-a-world-of-absolute-immediacy-it-is-an-interconnected/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/too-often-in-washington-we-tend-to-see-foreign-policy-as-an/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/imposing-democracy-through-force-is-a-roll-of-the-dice/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/i-have-never-believed-you-go-to-war-in-iraq-you-go-to-war-in/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/well-mr-obama-inherited-probably-the-biggest-inventory-of-problems/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-hagel/foreign-policy-will-require-a-strategic-agility-that-whenever/)

[Chuck Hagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-hagel/)

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