The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
Chuck HagelWell, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
Chuck HagelDesperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.
Chuck HagelI have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.
Chuck HagelIn a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is being strangled, it is no exaggeration to recognize him as morally guilty, for the great part of his rรฌle here, still more than elsewhere, has consisted in corrupting, degrading, and disintegrating.
Chuck HagelWe live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.
Chuck Hagel