I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
