Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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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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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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America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.
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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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Ensuring that the intelligence community adheres to its responsibilities to report on its activities to Congress is absolutely essential.
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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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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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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
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I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.
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House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.
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Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.
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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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Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.
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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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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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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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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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I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions lying and expressing hateful speech in the name of love, but again, it is their constitutional right. I'm not OK with their conduct, but in America we tolerate it, as obnoxious and spiteful as it may be.
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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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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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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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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.