If I am confirmed, as I noted in my opening comments, I would see this relationship, Senator, as a partnership. I'm going to need your help. I'm going to need your advice. I'm going to need your collaboration.
Hagel emphasizes the importance of collaboration with Congress as Secretary of Defense.
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I don't believe so, because there will be a question of trust and confidence in the panel, the makeup, if it's not transparent.
Well, first recognize that we have a problem and then start addressing the problem, locally, nationally, globally.
American military power alone cannot and will not eradicate the threats posed by ISIL to the United States, our allies, and our friends and partners in the region.
Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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