Pete Hoekstra Quotes

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Pete Hoekstra

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 30, 1953

Islamists and their sympathizers hate us, and they will not stop hating us until we convert to ancient Islam. There is no middle ground or accommodation.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan harbor incredible promise for America once they forge an effective partnership.

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The U.S. cannot survive another four years of the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton regime.

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Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.

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Not once during Obama's tenure did the country achieve an annual 3 percent rate of economic growth.

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Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

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Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

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The unregulated migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from terrorist safe havens in Syria, Iraq, and Libya has created a very difficult threat environment for Europe.

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The primary role of government is to provide for the safety and security of their populations.

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The West needs leaders with the courage and the will to fight the scourge of radical Islam.

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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.

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Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.

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World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.

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The Eurozone allows for the largely unimpeded movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders. It has also resulted in unprecedented cooperation on crime, security, and finance among its members.

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Gadhafi opponents included many 'good guys,' but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone.

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Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.

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Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.

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Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.

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The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.

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Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.

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