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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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.
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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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The STOP Underage Drinking Act will provide the resources necessary to educate young people about the dangers of underage drinking.
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The second question here is: Who is doing all of the fighting? This is also a societal issue. Should we continue to burden the middle class, who represents most all of our soldiers, and the lower-middle class?
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I don't think that any of our friends want to see a helicopter raid at midnight and rockets going in there without some sense of coordination and coalition building that I think is vital because then you have to ask the next question always: 'What happens next?'
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I don't know how many more casualties we're going to take. We're spending a billion dollars a week now (in Iraq),
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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,
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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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be honest with the Congress, be honest with the American people.
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but I think we need to have a better definition as to what that means.
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any straight-thinking American, any straight-thinking citizen of the world.
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Any recommendations regarding climate policy must meet the demands of economic growth and development, especially in the developing world.