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Chuck Hagel

8 quotes

• “I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We are the adult power in the world. It is because of the United States, our action or inaction, that there will be a resolution here.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On the Iraq troop surge of 2007, {{cite news

• “If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I believe, and always have, that America must engage — not retreat — in the world.”

  Chuck Hagel (born 1946) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Transcript: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense, submitted by Robert Naiman on February 1, 2013 at Justforeignpolicy.org, accessed February 10, 2013.