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

— Chuck Hagel

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,
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