Chuck Hagel Quotes

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• Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

  Chuck Hagel

  Sound, Way, Planning

  "The GOP Senator In Charge of Homeland Security Disagrees With The Pentagon On Climate Change" By Kate Sheppard, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2015.

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• 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

  Rights, Play, Democracy

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• 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

  Party, Oath Of Office, President

  "4 GOP Senators Hold Firm Against Patriot Act Renewal", Washington Post (p. A04), December 21, 2005.

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• Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.

  Chuck Hagel

  Military, Support, Dimensions

  Source: www.wbur.org

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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.

  Chuck Hagel

  Thinking, Important, Asking

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 26, 2015.

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• No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

  Chuck Hagel

  Team, Needs, Impossible

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

  Chuck Hagel

  Gun, People, Bayonets

  "Chuck Hagel and Israel in context: A guide to his controversial statements". www.washingtonpost.com. September 4, 1998.

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• You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.

  Chuck Hagel

  People, Quality, Capability

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Technology, Evil

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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

  Reality, Iraq, White

  "Republican senators challenge Bush on Iraq". www.irishtimes.com. June 20, 2005.

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• 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

  Military, Boards, Gone

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• It's critically important that we have governments to work with, that we have entities to work with. President Hadi has been a good partner in that, and we would hope that the next set of leaders that govern Yemen will also take the same approach to cooperation with the United States.

  Chuck Hagel

  Government, Leader, Important

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

  Chuck Hagel

  Engagement, Surrender, Appeasement

  "Hagel emerges from grueling confirmation hearing with solid Dem support for Pentagon job", www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

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  Leadership, Mean, Opportunity

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• 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

  Country, Voice, People

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• If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.

  Chuck Hagel

  Cutting, Simple, Impact

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers on more often, we're better leaders and we know more of what is going on and therefore we can lead more effectively.

  Chuck Hagel

  Jobs, People, Leader

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction.

  Chuck Hagel

  Responsibility, Thinking, President

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

  Chuck Hagel

  Government, People, Imperfect

  "Former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 6, 2012.

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• I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

  Chuck Hagel

  Book, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We must prepare for everything.

  Chuck Hagel

  "Meet the Press" with Chris Jansing, www.nbcnews.com. August 24, 2014.

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

  Chuck Hagel

  Records, Belief, Vote

  "Defense Nominee Hagel Defends His Record in Senate" by Donna Cassata, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

  Chuck Hagel

  Great Power, Nations, Great Nations

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• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

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  Alliances, Agility, Problem

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

  Chuck Hagel

  Army, Disaster, Ends

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