Pete Hoekstra

Governing has always been hard.

— Pete Hoekstra

Libya is a huge disaster.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.

— 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

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

— Pete Hoekstra

An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.

— 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

The U.S. faces a very dangerous sprint by outlaws to gather the deadliest weapons and technology on the planet, something we always…

— Pete Hoekstra

I will never forget standing with fellow members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol to sing 'God Bless America' on…

— 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

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about…

— Pete Hoekstra

While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will…

— Pete Hoekstra

The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist…

— Pete Hoekstra

Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in…

— Pete Hoekstra

Nobody will ever agree with everything everyone says, especially once an issue or speaker becomes politically charged. But as tolerant and civilized…

— 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

Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of…

— Pete Hoekstra

The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and…

— Pete Hoekstra

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

— Pete Hoekstra

Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.

— Pete Hoekstra

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

— Pete Hoekstra

Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.

— Pete Hoekstra

America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

— Pete Hoekstra