Chuck Hagel Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.”

“Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.”

“Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.”

“When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.”

“It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.”

“No border that touches Israel is always secure.”

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

“I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.”

“Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.”

“The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.”