49 Pete Hoekstra Quotes for You to Enjoy

Pete Hoekstra

American Politician

Born: Oct 30, 1953

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Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place. Pete Hoekstra

Work Education Service Hard Work Experience World Job Sacrifice First Dedication Military Lying About Most First Place Real His Years Accomplishment Snowden The Real World Real World Place Notable Succeed Procure Hard Military Service Necessary

Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency. Pete Hoekstra

Quality Accountability Consumer Drives Efficiency

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

Good Easy Toward Governance Common Common Ground Working Requires Ground Good Governance

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. Pete Hoekstra

Day Remember Opportunity Islam September Radical Those Threat Tactics Attacks Open Containing Unsuccessful Anniversary New Also Dialogue Been Tragic Died Confronting Successful Radical Islam Who Strategies Suffered Defeating

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

War Peace Sports Matters Parallels Some Trivial Compared Apply

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. Pete Hoekstra

As a member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee during the 2000s, I met with civilian and military officials in Kurdistan, Libya, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and Yemen. They shared many of the same international defense priorities as the United States. We acknowledged our differences, but we worked from where we found common ground. Pete Hoekstra

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The U.S. must remember - as the Gadhafi loyalists have and Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh are now realizing - that it cannot get into bed with groups affiliated with the jihadist movement. Pete Hoekstra

Remember Arabia Must Bed Affiliated Get Bangladesh Movement Cannot Turkey Realizing Groups Now Saudi Saudi Arabia

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen. Pete Hoekstra

Cleaning CIA Think House Happen Needed

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

States Syrian Emotional Accepting Issue Refugees United United States

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. Pete Hoekstra

Love Different Opinions Lying Those OK Hateful Constitutional Constitutional Right Obnoxious Spiteful Students Name Clergy Opinions Conduct America May Different Again Tolerate Expressing Right Speech

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

Politics Find Policy Foreign Foreign Policy Common Common Ground Room Ground Agreeing

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

Military State Seize Islamic Equipment Terrorists Opponents Proven Modern Deploy

Islamic fundamentalists in dark areas of Libya rifled through leftover stockpiles of conventional, chemical, and biological munitions from Muammar Gaddafi's rule. Who knows where they are now? Pete Hoekstra

Dark Rule Libya Area Through Knows Islamic Chemical Where Gaddafi Conventional Who Now Fundamentalists Biological

Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them. Pete Hoekstra

Obama sought a strategy of accommodating our enemies, even if they weren't so willing to accommodate us. Pete Hoekstra

Enemies Strategy Our Willing Obama Sought Accommodate Were Us Even

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

Fact Perfect Doctrine

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

Me Quality Intelligence Analysis House Concerned Issue Committee Really

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

Challenge Faced Seems Overcame America Whenever

The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil. Pete Hoekstra

Morning World Soil September Worst More Attack Devastating Since Devolved Islamists Terror American Place Much Lethal Hardened Nearly

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