Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan harbor incredible promise for America once they forge an effective partnership.
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Governing has always been hard.
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Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.
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Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.
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Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.
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Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.
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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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ISIS has stated that it intends to infiltrate the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the barbaric ISIS terrorists, using their families as cover.
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The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.
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America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.
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Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.
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Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
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Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.
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I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
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I served 10 years on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, and I had the distinct privilege of meeting with real U.S. spies throughout the globe.
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Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.
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Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.
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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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Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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Yes, Gaddafi was a ruthless dictator and supporter of terrorism during his 40-year reign in Libya, but he had become an ally of the United States in the fight against radical jihadism after 9/11.
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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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America needs to fully grasp the lessons learned from our history of fighting radical jihadists. There have been successes and failures.
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Libya stood as a source of stability in volatile northern Africa in 2011. The administration turned it into a failed state that exposed southern Europe to refugees and terrorist elements, all of which Gadhafi had warned about.