I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I'm the first secretary of defense that's had to deal with sequestration. I've prepared two budgets that deal with sequestration. And you bring the chiefs together, the leadership of this enterprise together, to work through, how do we then take… — 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 Image
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 Image
Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today. — 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 Council are… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
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 Image
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record. — 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 nonstate actors… — 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 country to:… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
