Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Consumer accountability drives quality and efficiency.
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No president can amend the past, and the public is tired of candidates who simply point fingers instead of offering their own solutions. They want a leader who will describe the threats as they are and rally the country behind a strategy to defeat them.
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After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.
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Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
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When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.
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America is the freest country on the planet, but for Snowden, this isn't enough. He is a state diplomat in Snowden land.
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A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.
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Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.
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An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.
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Gadhafi was a monster who ruled his country for 42 years with an iron fist and became an international pariah as a result. However, he found religion once he recognized his perilous position when the U.S. adopted an uncompromising response to international terrorism following 9/11.
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The overall feckless strategy against ISIS in Syria and Iraq enabled the Islamist organization to expand its domain and drive out more religious minorities.
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Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.
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Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.
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Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.
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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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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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America, at its core, is a country of strong and resilient people who are prepared to confront the challenges posed by those who seek to do us harm.
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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 from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.
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Accepting Syrian refugees into the United States is an emotional issue.
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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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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.
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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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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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Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.