Chuck Hagel Quotes

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Chuck Hagel

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 4, 1946

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

Chuck Hagel

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Chuck Hagel

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Chuck Hagel

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.

Chuck Hagel

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.

Chuck Hagel

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

Chuck Hagel

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Chuck Hagel

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Chuck Hagel

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

Chuck Hagel

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Chuck Hagel

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

Chuck Hagel

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.

Chuck Hagel

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Chuck Hagel