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…

— Chuck Hagel

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Chuck Hagel

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our…

— 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…

— Chuck Hagel

Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think…

— 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…

— Chuck Hagel

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

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

— Chuck Hagel

And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your…

— Chuck Hagel

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest.…

— Chuck Hagel

If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.

— Chuck Hagel

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The…

— Chuck Hagel

There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then…

— Chuck Hagel

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

If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's…

— Chuck Hagel

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

— Chuck Hagel