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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The president should be, in my opinion, reviewing and analyzing and putting some deep perspective into who's around him at the White House,
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deserved a far better answer than that flippant response.
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That soldier and those men and women there deserved a far better answer from their secretary of defense than a flippant comment, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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It should have been done when this whole thing started. Listen to her.
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Is this good news today? I think it is. But we have a long way to go,
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It's in the best interests of this country that we continue to keep some common sense and sanity in the process here, and we've got to remember that not only is all of America looking and hoping and wondering about the future of this country and our ability to govern, but so is the world.
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It's definitely in their interest -- certainly in the interest of this country, ... Americans and our allies across the globe must have confidence in our leadership. They must trust our processes. And that certainly includes our intelligence community's results.
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We very much appreciate Kuwait's recent contributions, significant contributions, offering half a billion dollars to the victims of Hurricane Katrina,
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We're isolating ourselves in the world ... And I think that the leadership of the Pentagon has done that in many ways to us, ... This issue of a secretary of defense not personally signing these letters is just astounding.
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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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What I think the White House does not yet understand and some of my colleagues, is the dam has broken on this (Iraq) policy.
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What I think the White House does not yet understand ? and some of my colleagues ? the dam has broke on this policy, ... The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together.
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We should start figuring out how we get out of there. But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East,
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We should start figuring out how we get out of there,