Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest.… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's… — 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
My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of… — 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
