Hoekstra Quotes & Sayings

I think cleaning house at the CIA needed to happen. — Pete Hoekstra

No one will ever hurt you again," he whispered against her hair, the promise one he'd kill to keep. "You're safe. — Nalini Singh

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing. — Fay Wray

I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th ... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak. — Emo Philips

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters. — Shimon Peres

The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits. — Mel Gibson

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. — Pete Hoekstra

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at. — John Dufresne

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Unlike films, plays don't take place in the past. The fear,anxiety of the actors is happening now, in front of you. If performing is risky, we identify with the possibility of granduer and disaster" ("The Body" and Seven Stories). — Hanif Kureishi

The desire for carnal possession quickly cools, whereas the desire to own land never quits the heart of man. — Gabriel Chevallier

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. — Pete Hoekstra

There were memories in that melody. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden. — Pete Hoekstra

Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra has charged the Bush administration with keeping programs secret from Congress. Somehow no one from Congress reads the New York Times, I guess. — Jay Leno

Intelligence is the key to achieve your dreams. — Jennifer I. Lim

I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator. — Candice S. Miller

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly. — George William Curtis