151 Quotes by Chuck Hagel

There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, “Well, then what happens? What comes next?” is critically important.

You can’t just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

And this – this board was – was impanelled in 1951. And it’s gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that’s where the Palestinians are today.

Things aren’t getting better; they’re getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It’s like they’re just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we’re losing in Iraq.

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

I am fully supportive of ‘open service’ and committed to LGBT military families.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn’t come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can’t dictate to them.