Israel Quotes 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…

— 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…

— Chuck Hagel

We must prepare for everything.

— Chuck Hagel

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

— 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…

— Chuck Hagel

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

— 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…

— Chuck Hagel

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

— 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…

— 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:…

— Chuck Hagel

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Chuck Hagel