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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

Topics: Dealing Democratic Out Quickly Reform Situation Situations Stabilize Then Toward Try Uncontrollable Work Work Out You

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Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Governments Imperfect Institutions People Surely

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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.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Abstraction Committing Complications Consequences Country Endeavors Foreign Foreign Policy Little Often Our Policy See Tend Too Understanding Washington

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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.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Being Came Centers Controlled Country Created Diffusion Economic Established Forces Geopolitical Global Historic Influences New Power Senate Single Soviet Soviet Union Threats Understood Union World I Came

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

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Area Armies Complex Dangerous Disaster Down Ends Historically Large

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Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Democracy Dice Force Imposing Roll Through

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I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Always Been Israel Supporter

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Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: Bayonet Come Dealing End Gun Peace People Through

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I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: America Any Assets Close Country Debts Even Our Position Trade World Would

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People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: China Country Get Great Great Country Obvious Only Out People Reasons States Trying United United States Where

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: October 4th, 1946

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