Pete Hoekstra Quotes

America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Free
  • Service

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Audience

• A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • High
  • Body
  • Diet

• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • You
  • Talk
  • Doctor

• I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Good
  • Gentleman
  • Southern

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Family
  • School
  • Man

• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Death
  • Become
  • Destroyer

• I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Child

• The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Different
  • Story
  • Opera

• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Important
  • American
  • History

• 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • Real
  • Power

• One swallow maketh not summer.

  

  John Heywood
  • Summer

• I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!

  

  Ann Romney
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Stupid

• I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Nice

• America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • America