Pete Hoekstra Quotes

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

We have an unfinished worldwide war against Al Qaida, a war that has to be won in conjunction with friends and allies and that ultimately will be won as much by persuasion as by the use of force. We've got to turn off the Al Qaida recruiting machine.

Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.

We are a country that met successes in the fight against terrorism.

It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

The only way to fight terrorism is to fight it, not to reward it…. When terror receives one victory, terror seeks other victories.

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

Now that Washington once again has a tangible adversary -- variously described as ‘freedom-hating terrorists,’ ‘Salafist jihadis,’ or ‘Islamofascists’ -- U.S. leaders have convinced the American public that foreign policy is an ‘us-versus-them’ contact sport in which the primary tactics are military and coercive

The best intentioned efforts to end terrorist wars have failed again and again.

The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.

The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.

Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.

The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al Qaeda.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.

We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.