There's always a balance, I think, any administration has to find in not just the military but in any agency of government. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think… — 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
I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There… — 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