Chuck Hagel

If confirmed, I will look forward to participating in any interagency discussion of the merits of extending selective service registration to women.

If confirmed, I will make certain the Department complies with the provisions of NDAA for Fiscal Year 2013.

I am fully committed to the President's policy of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and believe all options should be on the table to achieve that goal.

The Department is doing all that it can given the complex nature of suicide and society's limited base of knowledge in this realm.

I agree with the President that longstanding norms guiding state behavior, including the law of armed conflict, also apply in cyberspace.

Those submarines, as you note, are cornerstones to that security.

I think the next few years are going to be as defining and as important in this country truly as any few years post-World War II.

It will be the same that Secretary Panetta and, before him, Secretary Gates initiated in closer collaboration between the two agencies.

If confirmed, you have my commitment to look at the Department's reliance on the use of contractors in contingency operations and to assess what core capabilities should be retained in DOD.

You have just defined President Obama's strategy on Iran, which I firmly support, strongly support.

It isn't just the dollars that affect this, but it's the planning, it's the flexibility.

Our world today is totally different than it was 12 years ago.

I strongly believe all Americans should be able to serve in our Armed Forces to their maximum abilities.

I've never opposed military action against Iran.

I fully supported the withdrawal of all U.S. combat forces from Iraq by December 2011 in accordance with the November 2008 U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement.

I understand the Department has undertaken a series of 'Better Buying Power' initiatives.

It is the Sense of Congress that any agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation related to nuclear arms or missile defense systems... may be made only pursuant to the treat-making power of the President.

We will assure that every military man and woman and their families are given exactly the same opportunities and rights as each other and all members of the Armed Forces.

Pakistan is a complicated relationship. It is a nuclear power.

Cyber, I believe, represents as big a threat to the security of this country as any one specific threat.

I was one of some Republican Senators who did not want that vote to go forward.

Today, the United States must be able to project naval power globally, with a strategic emphasis on rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific region and maintaining presence in and around the Middle East.

I agree that our country faces a spectrum of threats and concur that strategic dispersal is a critical element in reducing risk.

I am committed completely to modernizing our Navy and everything it includes and will require.

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.