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

— Chuck Hagel

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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.

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

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