All Chuck Hagel Quotes
- I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families. Committed
- I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been. Been
- Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice. Democracy
- It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out. Easy
- No border that touches Israel is always secure. Always Secure
- No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record. Belief
- Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun. Bayonet
- The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security. Free
- We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people. Bad
- Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the… All
- I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields,… Afghanistan
- I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't… America
- The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. Affirmation
- The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. Afghanistan
- My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community… All
- Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be… All
- Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom… All
- Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory… American
- Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the… Abstraction
- When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the… Came