Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

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

The entire world is the front line for terrorism.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

Nigeria may have contained Ebola, but keeping Boko Haram from establishing an Islamic State will be a hard and bloody fight.

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

Syria is hosting the most dangerous terrorist organizations.

Either we destroy world terror or world terror will destroy us.

ISIL is a terrorist army like we have never seen - they cannot be ignored.

The fact that a terrorist was killed, and it doesn't matter if it was in Dubai or Gaza, is good news to those fighting terrorism.

Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

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

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

I think the epicentre of terrorism whether you call it cesspit or whatever you want to call it, shift, if you asked me a while ago, I would have said Somalia, Somalia has quietened a bit - and I think the epicentre right now is in Northern Nigeria.