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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It does point up how dangerous this can be, ... This Week.
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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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He won a majority of the vote. Well, who are we to say that they don't have that right in making that decision? My point in using that example is that at some point we are going to have to go back and allow the people to make the choices here.
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I really think that the proper role for Saudi Arabia or for any other country in the region is to help them, not critique them. And I've made that point very clear to countries in the region.
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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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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.
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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,
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The president should be, in my opinion, reviewing and analyzing and putting some deep perspective into who's around him at the White House,