Zitat des Tages von Chuck Hagel:
I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
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.
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.
Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.
