Political Quotes

Pete Hegseth

The Public Record

U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration; Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News host.

Aug 22, 2025

It was preliminary, a day and a half after the actual strike, when it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment.

nbcnews.com
Aug 22, 2025

It points out that it’s not been coordinated with the intelligence community at all. There’s low confidence in this particular report.

nbcnews.com
Aug 15, 2025

never should have been taken down by woke lemmings. Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history - we honor it.

msnbc.com
Aug 15, 2025

It hasn’t made us more effective. Hasn’t made us more lethal. Has made fighting more complicated.

newrepublic.com
Aug 11, 2025

At your direction this morning, we’ve mobilized the D.C. National Guard.

breitbart.com
Aug 11, 2025

In Los Angeles, we did the same thing, working with the California National Guard, working with ICE officers.

newrepublic.com
Aug 11, 2025

They will be strong, they will be tough, and they will stand with their law enforcement partners.

newrepublic.com
Aug 11, 2025

We will work alongside all D.C. police and federal law enforcement to ensure this city is safe.

breitbart.com
Aug 11, 2025

You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming weeks.

usatoday.com
Aug 7, 2025

We recognize our history,” Hegseth told Fox News host Will Cain on Thursday. “We don’t erase it. We don’t follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues… We’re proud of our history.

thedailybeast.com
Aug 7, 2025

Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history — we honor it.

msnbc.com
Aug 7, 2025

Our job is to ensure our enemies know exactly what we will do to them if they threaten us up to and including total war,” he said.

thedailybeast.com