I think the stability has held, sir. I think it's fragile, and it's trending towards being more problematic.
Security is mainly a state of mind, not a physical condition, and mutual assured destruction no longer occupies a centra...
The Global Zero report that Senator Hagel was one of four other people that signed it and produced it, said some very tr...
This nominee has been somewhat erratic in his positions over time, and I am concerned about that.
In our illustrative plan, the United States over the next 10 years reduces its arsenal to a maximum of 900 nuclear weapo...
I am not surprised that the anti-nuclear left would propose the things that are in the Global Zero report.
In our collective judgment, this committee should not vote and the full Senate should not vote on his confirmation, unle...
Senator Hagel is an honorable man. He has served his country. No one on this committee at any time should impugn his cha...
I think encouraging those who would do harm to this country is not, ultimately, in the interest of this Nation.
If Chuck Hagel is confirmed, it will make military conflict in the next 4 years substantially more likely.
I was deeply troubled by his statements with regard to containment.
Senator Hagel's judgment was wrong, continues to be wrong, and he refuses to admit that he was wrong on this issue.
His performance before this committee was the worst that I have seen of any nominee for office.
I think all of us here hope that we can stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon short of military actions.
We recently voted in a vote of 90 to 1 in the U.S. Senate explicitly rejecting a policy of containment toward a nuclear-...
His gratuitous attacks, for example, saying that President Bush was the worst President since Herbert Hoover, of course,...
I cannot vote to report out Senator Hagel's nomination favorably.
I do not believe that we should move forward with his nomination until questions are answered.
