Chuck Hagel Quotes

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

With regards to American foreign policy all across the globe, it is important for us to be operating from positions of strength, and not to just concede that.

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

No one can think intelligently on the many complicated problems of American foreign policy unless he decides first what he considers the real purpose and object of that policy…. Fundamentally, I believe the ultimate purpose of our foreign policy must be to protect the liberty of the people of the United States.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

For nearly 7 decades United States has been the anchor of global security. This is meant more than forging international agreements. It has meant enforcing them.

There's no sense in using surrogates to pursue United States national interests.

The United States is undergoing a transformation in how it relates to the rest of the world. We are becoming a nation that has no more negotiators and peacemakers, that shoots first and asks questions later.

The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

Even in the best of times, the United States' ability to influence events in faraway places is limited. The tools we have, from soft power and diplomacy to sanctions and bombing campaigns, are never guaranteed to succeed.

We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not become bogged down in unwinnable conflicts that lead to greater resentment of the United States, and that don't advance American interests.

We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.