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The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Any Critical Democracy Development Economic Economic Development History Human Human Rights Nations Needs Play Promoting Reform Relevant Rights Role Security Stability Time Today Un United United Nations

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Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: About Bad Decisions Different Dynamics Every Foreign Foreign Policy Geopolitical Imperfect People Policy Pressures Realities Shift Situation Universe

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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

Topics: Afghanistan Believe Believed Channels Countries Deal Go Iraq Narrow Never Those War You

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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Alliance Constraints Expand Influence International Leadership Means Opportunities Organizations Our Power Should Understood

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We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Bad Bad People Dangerous Live People Where World

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Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Appeasement Engagement Surrender

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Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Agility Alliance American Credibility Foreign Foreign Policy Gets Interests Policy Possible Problems Require Security Strategic Strengthens Whenever Will Ahead

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Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: All Nations Alliance Constraint Democracy Expand Expansion Freedom Influence Interest Means Nations Our Power Shared Should Understood Value World

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Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: American American President Any Big Biggest Cases Certainly Entire Ever Foreign Foreign Policy Franklin Franklin Roosevelt He Inherited Inventory Maybe Obama Overall Policy President Problems Roosevelt Since Some Than Think Well Worse I Think Mr

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

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Am Committed Families Fully Military Open Service Supportive I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: October 4th, 1946

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