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Top 40 Chuck Hagel Quotes (2024 Update)

Chuck Hagel Quote: “We must prepare for everything.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “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.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “You can’t just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn’t come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “And this – this board was – was impanelled in 1951. And it’s gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that’s where the Palestinians are today.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Things aren’t getting better; they’re getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It’s like they’re just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we’re losing in Iraq.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “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.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn’t take an oath of office to my party or my president.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “I’m a supporter of Israel, always have been.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “History has shown that a country most effectively speaks with one voice. When nationally elected officials work together, build consensus, and provide leadership, the American people will follow.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can’t dictate to them.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “No border that touches Israel is always secure.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “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 Quote: “The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “I am fully supportive of ‘open service’ and committed to LGBT military families.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “I’m not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he’s going to get us to solvency. I do that.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “The United States can’t impose democracies. We can’t impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “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 Quote: “Deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Palestinians caged up like animals.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Well, let’s go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “I believe, and always have, that America must engage – not retreat – in the world.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.”
Chuck Hagel Quote: “Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.”
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