Pete Hoekstra Quotes

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.

We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

Republicans hate government ... So they let us Democrats run it for them.

There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.

The Trump administration is hammering again and again on the idea that Democrats will bring chaos and violence to American streets.

For some Republicans, 2016 is 1992: Hating Hillary Clinton is chic again. Only more so, since the former secretary of state is also the partner of and potential successor to the last two Democratic presidents - Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

The Democrats want to destroy the country immediately.

When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.

Here's what I have to say: Obama is a disaster, and Washington politicians are worthless.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.