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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

The four of us have come together in a nonpartisan effort, deeply committed to building support for a global effort to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, to prevent their spread into potentially dangerous hands, and to ultimately to end…

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

Yes, and I am on the record a number of times saying that.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

The United States should seek to achieve such reductions in 10 years and plan to base its arsenal on a dyad of nuclear delivery vehicles.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

It did not propose or call for anything. It was, in fact--the word specifically used at the front end of that report was 'illustrative,' proposing nothing, but laying out different scenarios, and possibilities, and schedules.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I always ask the question, is this going to be worth the sacrifice, because there will be sacrifice.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

Was the policy worthy of the men and women that we were sending into battle and surely to their deaths?

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I disagreed with President Obama and his decision to surge in Afghanistan.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

That particular decision that was made on the surge, but more to the point, our war in Iraq, I think was the most fundamental bad, dangerous decision since Vietnam.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I think it is far more complicated than that, as I have already said. My answer is, I will defer that judgment to history.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I have never voted against Israel ever in the 12 years I was in the Senate.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I have always believed that the President of the United States is the elected leader of America.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I recall signing a letter, a Warner-Levin letter in 2002 to the President of the United States regarding anti-Semitism in Russia.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

We are not going to unilateral disarm. Verifiable. It has to be bilateral. It has to be negotiated.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I believe that providing the necessary resources for nuclear modernization of the triads should be a national priority.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

Of course I will because that is the intent of our budget and DOD.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

I did vote against it, and I was going to explain why I voted against it.

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Chuck Hagel
@chuckhagel· Republican · NE· Jan 30, 2013

It is incumbent upon all of us to make decisions that will ensure our Nation is prepared to confront any threat.

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