Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Governing has always been hard.
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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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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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The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.
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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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America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.
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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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Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.
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I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
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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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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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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
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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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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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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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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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Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
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Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.
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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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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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America's bipartisan strategy for years has been to deny jihadists with sanctuaries anywhere in the world from where they can plan, prepare, and train for attacks against the West.
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The policies and laws executed by the grand mufti in Libya, the long-term agenda in the short-lived Morsi government in Egypt, and by ISIS in its ideal Islamist Ummah are incompatible with the Constitution, period.