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
honest
be honest with the Congress, be honest with the American people.
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I don't know how many more casualties we're going to take. We're spending a billion dollars a week now (in Iraq),
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but I think we need to have a better definition as to what that means.
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I can-with my plan-these are Social Security Administration numbers, they ran my numbers-get us to full solvency within 75 years and beyond for less than the $3.7 trillion debt that we're already in.
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deserved a far better answer than that flippant response.
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That soldier and those men and women there deserved a far better answer from their secretary of defense than a flippant comment, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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It's in the best interests of this country that we continue to keep some common sense and sanity in the process here, and we've got to remember that not only is all of America looking and hoping and wondering about the future of this country and our ability to govern, but so is the world.
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It's definitely in their interest -- certainly in the interest of this country, ... Americans and our allies across the globe must have confidence in our leadership. They must trust our processes. And that certainly includes our intelligence community's results.
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They will continue to play a critical role here in the Middle East, and we'll find out what we need to find out.
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Is this good news today? I think it is. But we have a long way to go,
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The fundamental question is, 'What comes next?' ... Meet the Press.
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the concern I always have in these matters as well as others when it comes to power in government is too much power concentrated in too few hands.
longer problems
The longer we stay, the more problems we are going to have.
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The longer we stay in Iraq, the more similarities will start to develop, meaning essentially that we are getting more and more bogged down, taking more and more casualties, more and more heated dissension and debate in the United States,