Pete Hoekstra

Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith…

— Pete Hoekstra

Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for…

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign…

— Pete Hoekstra

Belonging to the Gang of Eight carries massive responsibility in representing all 435 members of the legislature in very sensitive national security exercises.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.

— Pete Hoekstra

It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.

— Pete Hoekstra

The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat…

— Pete Hoekstra

America's bipartisan strategy for years has been to deny jihadists with sanctuaries anywhere in the world from where they can plan, prepare,…

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures.

— Pete Hoekstra

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

— Pete Hoekstra

Should President Clinton have killed Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity in 1990s? Should President Bush have sent the U.S.…

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult…

— Pete Hoekstra

Once the U.S. and NATO walked away from Libya, a chaotic, lawless state in the soft underbelly of Europe arose.

— Pete Hoekstra

Islamic fundamentalists in dark areas of Libya rifled through leftover stockpiles of conventional, chemical, and biological munitions from Muammar Gaddafi's rule. Who…

— Pete Hoekstra

The Islamic State has proven that terrorists can seize and deploy modern military equipment on lesser-armed opponents.

— Pete Hoekstra