Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel
Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
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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 my president.
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I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.
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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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The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
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Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
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Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.
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You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.
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Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
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Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
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We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship,
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We should start figuring out how we get out of there,
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We very much appreciate Kuwait's recent contributions, significant contributions, offering half a billion dollars to the victims of Hurricane Katrina,
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What I think the White House does not yet understand ? and some of my colleagues ? the dam has broke on this policy, ... The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together.