Chuck Hagel Quotes

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

No world power has ever tried to manage affair in this particular circumstance: The cycle of News, the cycle of crises, the complexity of grievances in increasing numbers of failed and failing states.

God, our world is so complicated.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I don't think it's one motion unfortunately - I wish we could say it's better, better, better - but I think it's better, bad, better, bad - you know?

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

The world is full of contradiction.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

I'm glad they're taking a step back. A lot of this is happening so quickly that people can't keep up with it.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!