Pete Hoekstra Quotes

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Pete Hoekstra

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 30, 1953

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

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Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

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The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.

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Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

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The anniversary of the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2012, is a day to remember those who died and suffered. It is also an opportunity to open a new dialogue on the tactics and strategies that have been successful - and unsuccessful - in confronting, containing, and defeating the threat from radical Islam.

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I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I'm not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be.

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I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.

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There are no consequences for Snowden breaking the law in Snowden's World. It's where his massively inflated ego dictates the rules and determines which he will follow.

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Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.

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The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

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I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.

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Libya is a huge disaster.

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Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.

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ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.

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I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.

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Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.

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We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

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We need to recognize the reality of the threat from radical Islam: that it will be an enduring conflict, that there are no easy decisions, and that mistakes have and will be made.

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Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.

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Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.

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