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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There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.
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during a time when in fact we had a policy that was losing. And the members of Congress were interestingly silent and absent in asking tough questions. As long as I'm a United States senator, I will do everything I can to ensure that we have a policy worthy of these brave young men and women who are sacrificing their lives and doing the things that they do for this country. I don't think that policy is there today.
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There needs to be a lot of questions asked -- where is that $87 billion going? How much more do you have to go in for? ... We didn't ask those questions in the spring when we passed the $70 billion supplemental. America needs to have those questions asked, and we deserve to know.
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I don't think that any of our friends want to see a helicopter raid at midnight and rockets going in there without some sense of coordination and coalition building that I think is vital because then you have to ask the next question always: 'What happens next?'
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I think we are going to have to take a very serious look at where we are going to prioritize our resources, ... We can't do it all, just as we found out in Vietnam.
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I think the wise course of action, the compassionate course of action, the better course of action would have been to immediately invite her in to the ranch,
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It does point up how dangerous this can be, ... This Week.
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John's a realist. John counts pretty well ... John's a very effective leader and politician, and mathematically you just can't get there.
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It cannot be seen as a puppet of the United States because if it is, then we will run the risk of losing Iraq, ... In the end, it is the Iraqi people that will make the decisions.
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It becomes a question as to what can the U.S. and our allies do, what should we do, what action, what option do we have?
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We were unprepared for what we were going to face, what we are facing, in a post-Saddam Iraq. And this is just one more manifestation of the problem.
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locked into a bogged-down problem, not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam.
century require
The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations.
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We need to be patient here; time is on our side here,