Chuck Hagel Quotes

• 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 toward and work out toward democratic reform.

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• 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 Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers – and new threats.

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• Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn’t mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.

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• 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 of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.

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• 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 complications and consequences of endeavors.

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• People are not trying to get into China, they’re trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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• The United States can’t impose democracies. We can’t impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

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• No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

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• Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn’t come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

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• No border that touches Israel is always secure.

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• Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

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• It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

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• Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

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• Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

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• I’m a supporter of Israel, always have been.

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Chuck Hagel (33)

Birth:	4th October, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel was born in North Platte, Nebraska. He is an American politician who was the 24th United States Secretary of Defense for two years in the Obama administration. He previously served as United States Senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009. He earned a BA degree in history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1971.

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