Chuck Hagel idézet

Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel 2013-2014-ig az Amerikai Egyesült Államok 24. védelmi minisztere, 1997-2009-ig Nebraska szenátora, republikánus politikus. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. október 1946
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Chuck Hagel: Idézetek angolul

“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.”

[Foster, Klug, http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6149419,00.html, U.S. Presses China on N. Korea Sanctions, Associated Press (via The Guardian), October 15, 2006, 2006-10-16]
2006

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

[Chuck, Hagel, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401104.html, Leaving Iraq, Honorably, Washington Post, November 26, 2006, 2016-01-03]
2006

“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 Iraq troop surge of 2007, Excerpts From Senate Iraq Meeting, The Bellingham Herald, 24 January 2007, 2007-01-25 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ_EXCERPTS?SITE=WABEL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT,
2007

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

[Andrew, Stephen, http://www.newstatesman.com/200602270021, Deputy Dick: What We Don't Know, New Statesman, 27 February 2006, 2006-10-16]
2006

“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, Hagel Ponders White House Run As War Criticism Raises His Profile, The Washington Post, 26 January 2007, 2007-01-29 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502086_2.html,
2007

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

Hagel: U.S. should pull out of 'mismanaged' Iraq, CNN, November 27, 2006, 2016-01-03 http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/26/hagel.iraq/,
2006

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

Transcript: Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1368, submitted by Robert Naiman on February 1, 2013 at Justforeignpolicy.org, accessed February 10, 2013.
2013

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

On Bush, the GOP, and the Patriot Act,[Charles, Babington, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122001488.html?nav=rss_print/asection, 4 GOP Senators Hold Firm Against Patriot Act Renewal, Washington Post, A04, December 21, 2005, 2006-10-16]
2005