Pete Hoekstra Quotes

After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

Pete Hoekstra

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• I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Value
  • News
  • Tin

• Cruelty is not a literary value.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Value
  • Cruelty
  • Literary

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Value
  • Heroism

• You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Business
  • Value
  • Best

• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Value
  • Successful

• Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • Parents
  • Purpose

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Value
  • Hair
  • Unique

• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • Good
  • Value

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

  

  Fay Wray
  • Book
  • Advice
  • Same

• Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

  

  Buddy Ebsen
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Value

• This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If you are a woman, if you are a Hispanic, if you are black, and you abide by a value system that believes in limited government and constitutional principles, you are an apostate to the utopian ideals of the left, and you are not protected, and you are pilloried, and that is why I became a conservative because I thought it was fundamentally unfair, fundamentally un-American.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Believe
  • Why
  • American

• People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

  

  Martin Landau
  • People
  • Bad

• My biggest enemy is typically me.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • Enemy

• People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Science
  • Spiritual

• After the heavily politicized 2007 Iran NIE, many of us in Congress found it hard to take some intelligence analysis at face value.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Value