We must prepare for everything.

- Chuck Hagel

We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate act…

- Chuck Hagel

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…

- Chuck Hagel

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires mor…

- Chuck Hagel

I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions …

- Chuck Hagel

You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.

- Chuck Hagel

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as rele…

- Chuck Hagel

There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then w…

- Chuck Hagel

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 …

- Chuck Hagel