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[[File:Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. 130227-A-SS368-001.jpg|thumb|Chuck Hagel in 2013]]
'''[[w:Chuck Hagel|Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel]]''' (born [[October 4]], [[1946]]) is the senior [[w:United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[w:Nebraska|Nebraska]]. A member of the [[w:Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002. He is often characterized as a political maverick and moderate, similar to fellow [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]] veteran Republican Senator [[w:John McCain|John McCain]].


'''[[w:Chuck Hagel|Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel]]''' (born [[October 4]], [[1946]]) is an American [[w:military veteran|military veteran]] and former politician who served as a [[w:United States Senate|United States senator]] from [[w:Nebraska|Nebraska]] from 1997 to 2009 and as the 24th [[w:United States Secretary of Defense|United States secretary of defense]] from 2013 to 2015 in the [[w:Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]]. A member of the [[w:Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002. He declined to run for reelection in 2008. He is often characterized as a political maverick and moderate, similar to fellow [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]] veteran Republican Senator [[w:John McCain|John McCain]].
== Sourced ==


== Quotes ==
* If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.
** On Vice President [[Dick Cheney]]'s [[w:Dick Cheney hunting incident|accidental shooting of Harry Whittington]] during a quail hunt
** Quoted in {{cite news
| first = Andrew
| last = Stephen
| url = http://www.newstatesman.com/200602270021
| title = Deputy Dick: What We Don't Know
| publisher = New Statesman
| date = [[27 February]] [[2006]]
| accessdate = 2006-10-16
}}


===2005 ===
* I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.
* I took an [[oath of office]] to the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]], I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.
** On Bush, the GOP, and the [[w:USA PATRIOT Act|Patriot Act]]
** Quoted in {{cite news
**On Bush, the GOP, and the [[w:USA PATRIOT Act|Patriot Act]],{{cite news
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| date = [[December 21]], [[2005]]
| date = [[December 21]], [[2005]]
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=== 2006===
* If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.
**{{cite news
| first = Andrew
| last = Stephen
| url = http://www.newstatesman.com/200602270021
| title = Deputy Dick: What We Don't Know
| publisher = New Statesman
| date = [[27 February]] [[2006]]
| accessdate = 2006-10-16
| accessdate = 2006-10-16
}}
}}


* 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.
* 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.
**{{cite news
** On [[w:United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718|United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718]], condemning North Korea's first nuclear test
** {{cite news
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*We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.
**{{cite news
| first = Chuck
| last = Hagel
| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401104.html
| title = Leaving Iraq, Honorably
| publisher = ''Washington Post''
| date = [[November 26]], [[2006]]
| accessdate = 2016-01-03
}}

*We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.
**{{cite news
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| url = http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/26/hagel.iraq/
| title = Hagel: U.S. should pull out of 'mismanaged' Iraq
| publisher = ''CNN''
| date = [[November 27]], [[2006]]
| accessdate = 2016-01-03
}}

=== 2007===
* 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.
* 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.
** On the [[w:Iraq troop surge of 2007|Iraq troop surge of 2007]]
** On the [[w:Iraq troop surge of 2007|Iraq troop surge of 2007]], {{cite news
** {{cite news
| url = http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ_EXCERPTS?SITE=WABEL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
| url = http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ_EXCERPTS?SITE=WABEL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
| title = Excerpts From Senate Iraq Meeting
| title = Excerpts From Senate Iraq Meeting
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* If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.
* If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.
** Asking his fellow Senators to support a joint resolution opposing President [[George W. Bush]]'s troop deployment plan
** Asking his fellow Senators to support a joint resolution opposing President [[George W. Bush]]'s troop deployment plan, {{cite news
** {{cite news
| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502086_2.html
| url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502086_2.html
| title = Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile
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== Unsourced ==
=== 2013===
* I believe, and always have, that America must engage — not retreat — in the world.

** [http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1368 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.
* At some point somebody's going to ask you in a debate: "Well, senator, will you pledge if you're elected president never to raise taxes?" I couldn't take that pledge. It would be irresponsible. That may cost me the nomination.
** 2004; on the prospects of running for President in 2008

* I happen to believe that by 2008, this country is going to be ready for some people to talk very clearly, plainly — not frighten them, not demagogue them, but say it straight, say it honest.
** 2004; on the prospects of running for President in 2008

* Look at the deficits that have been run up ''[…]'' And Republicans have been in charge ''[…]'' We've been adrift in a sea of incompetence, with no fiscal responsibility.
** Fall 2004; on the Republican Party that he says has "lost its moorings"

* I like him. He's smart, he's tough, he's capable. I don't agree with him on a lot of things [though] I am closer to him on foreign policy questions ''[…]'' He's certainly qualified to be president.
** 2004; on [[John Kerry]]

* I read everything I could about Indochina, about the war, about the French, about Vietnam, about our policy, what got us there ''[…]'' And the more I read, the more I understood ''[…]'' I got a sense that there was just so much dishonesty in it. And it was chewing these kids up ''[…]'' So I started connecting all the deaths and all the suffering and the chaos and wounds. I started to sense a dishonesty about it all.
** Fall 2004; on what he learned about the [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]] years after fighting in it

* I don't think the federal government has any business in dictating what constitutes a marriage.
** 2005 May 03 in New Hampshire; on the idea of a federal constitutional amendement banning same-sex marriage

=== Iraq ===

* Many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective, versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off.
** 2002; on deciding whether or not to go to war

* The tough questions were not asked when we sent young men and women into Vietnam. Where were our elected officials then? Eleven years and 58,000 deaths later, we lost. I don't want that to happen in Iraq.
** Fall 2004; on correlations between the Vietnam War and the [[w:Iraq War|Iraq War]]

* I have a responsibility to do everything I can to assure our men and women who are serving in uniform and their families that America has a policy that is worthy of their sacrifices ''[…]'' The deadly struggle for Iraq is not a video game that can be turned off until Nov. 2. War is not an abstraction ''[…]'' I know. I've been to war.
** Fall 2004; on questioning the war policies of fellow Republican [[George W. Bush]]

* We really do not have a good handle on the insurgency in Iraq.
** 2005 February 20

* I don't think you ever define victory by time frames.
** 2005 February 20

* It is very, very important that we reconnect with our allies.
** 2005 February 20


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Latest revision as of 10:08, 24 March 2023

Chuck Hagel in 2013

Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is an American military veteran and former politician who served as a United States senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009 and as the 24th United States secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015 in the Obama administration. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002. He declined to run for reelection in 2008. He is often characterized as a political maverick and moderate, similar to fellow Vietnam War veteran Republican Senator John McCain.

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2006

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

2007

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  • 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.

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