When you’re dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform. Chuck Hagel Read Quote
The United States can’t impose democracies. We can’t impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan. Chuck Hagel Read 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 Read Quote
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record. Chuck Hagel Read Quote
I am fully supportive of ‘open service’ and committed to LGBT military families. Chuck Hagel Read 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 Read Quote