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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absent asking brave congress ensure fact lives members men policy silent states time tough united women worthy
during a time when in fact we had a policy that was losing. And the members of Congress were interestingly silent and absent in asking tough questions. As long as I'm a United States senator, I will do everything I can to ensure that we have a policy worthy of these brave young men and women who are sacrificing their lives and doing the things that they do for this country. I don't think that policy is there today.
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There needs to be a lot of questions asked -- where is that $87 billion going? How much more do you have to go in for? ... We didn't ask those questions in the spring when we passed the $70 billion supplemental. America needs to have those questions asked, and we deserve to know.
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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.
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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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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,
dissimilar locked
locked into a bogged-down problem, not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam.
dangerous point
It does point up how dangerous this can be, ... This Week.
found prioritize serious
I think we are going to have to take a very serious look at where we are going to prioritize our resources, ... We can't do it all, just as we found out in Vietnam.
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I think the wise course of action, the compassionate course of action, the better course of action would have been to immediately invite her in to the ranch,
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I think he represents the best of judicial prudence, style and qualifications,
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John's not going to put this country and this party through some high theater and high drama ... that's not his style, John is straightforward, says it plain and that's what he will do here, I suspect, in the next couple of days,
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John's a realist. John counts pretty well ... John's a very effective leader and politician, and mathematically you just can't get there.
century require
The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations.