Chuck Hagel Quotes

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over. - Chuck Hagel

Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know. You've got 90 senators out of 100 and that includes many Republicans opposed to it. - Chuck Hagel

What's going to be critically important is this election coming up in December, which will, in fact, elect a permanent Iraqi government, a government that was not installed by the United States or outside forces, but the Iraqi people will elect that government. - Chuck Hagel

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. - Chuck Hagel

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. - Chuck Hagel

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. - Chuck Hagel

We were unprepared for what we were going to face, what we are facing, in a post-Saddam Iraq. And this is just one more manifestation of the problem. - Chuck Hagel

We very much appreciate Kuwait's recent contributions, significant contributions, offering half a billion dollars to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. - Chuck Hagel

We took a day and a half to make sure that no millionaires could oust any of my colleagues from their seats... And many of my colleagues used terms like, 'my seat,' 'our seat,' don't let anybody threaten that, of course. - Chuck Hagel

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