Chuck Hagel Quotes - Page 3

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• The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Hurt, Years

  "Cheney raps Democrats on war charges", www.cnn.com. November 17, 2005.

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• There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, Moving, Air

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• (The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, Years, Reason

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• This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

  Chuck Hagel

  World, Today, Complicated

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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 to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, America, Community

  Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense, February, 2013.

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• [Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

  Chuck Hagel

  Thinking, Should Have, Done

  "Hagel: Iraq growing more like Vietnam". www.cnn.com. August 18, 2005.

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• Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

  Chuck Hagel

  Men, Today, Desperate

  "Chuck Hagel and Israel in context: A guide to his controversial statements". www.washingtonpost.com. August 27, 1998.

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• It's critically important that we have governments to work with, that we have entities to work with. President Hadi has been a good partner in that, and we would hope that the next set of leaders that govern Yemen will also take the same approach to cooperation with the United States.

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  Government, Leader, Important

  Source: www.wbur.org

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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 count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current.

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  Reality, Years, Decision

  "Hagel: 2002 election colors congressional agenda" by Brad Wright, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2001.

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• The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

  Chuck Hagel

  People, Israeli, Peace And Security

  Chuck Hagel, Charles Timothy Hagel (2008). “America: our next chapter : tough questions, straight answers”, Ecco Pr

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• We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

  Chuck Hagel

  People, World, Dangerous

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• 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 geopolitical realities shift.

  Chuck Hagel

  Reality, People, Decision

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• 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, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, War, Believe

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• 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 a country in the world even close to America.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, America, Debt

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• In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is being strangled, it is no exaggeration to recognize him as morally guilty, for the great part of his rìle here, still more than elsewhere, has consisted in corrupting, degrading, and disintegrating.

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  Responsibility, Political, Algeria

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

  Chuck Hagel

  Jobs, Shoes, Safe

  "Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile". www.washingtonpost.com. January 26, 2007.

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