"The United States can't impose democracies. We can't……" — Chuck Hagel
"The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan."
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45 Quotes by Chuck Hagel
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And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how…
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(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.
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There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down…
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This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds,…
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History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus,…
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If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down…
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We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't…
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Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.
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I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.
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The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The…
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I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or…
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Palestinians caged up like animals.
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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