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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.
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I believe, and always have, that America must engage — not retreat — in the world.
If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.
We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.
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.
If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.
We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.
I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.
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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