We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people. — 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
I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the… — 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
I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world. — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us… — 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
