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.

Jun 25, 2025

So, if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordo, you better get a big shovel, and go really deep. Because Iran’s nuclear program is obliterated.

newrepublic.com
Jun 25, 2025

Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons.

usatoday.com
Jun 25, 2025

If you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordo, you better get a big shovel, and go really deep.

thedailybeast.com
Jun 25, 2025

We are doing a leak investigation with the FBI now, because this information is for internal purposes—battle damage investigation—and CNN and others are trying to spin it to try and make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming…

thedailybeast.com
Jun 24, 2025

Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons.

cnn.com
Jun 24, 2025

The president has made it very clear that he’s looked at all the intelligence and come to the conclusion that the Iranian nuclear program is a threat.

motherjones.com
Jun 23, 2025

This mission was not and has not been about regime change.

truthout.org
Jun 23, 2025

The mission was not, has not been about regime change.

nbcnews.com
Jun 22, 2025

The operation President Trump planned was bold and it was brilliant, showing the world that American deterrence is back when this president speaks, the world should listen and the U.S. military, we can back it up. The most powerful…

newsweek.com
Jun 20, 2025

I don’t believe district courts should be determining national security policy. When it goes to the Supreme Court, we’ll see.

msnbc.com
Jun 20, 2025

I don’t believe district courts should determine national security policy, but if the Supreme Court rules on a topic, we will abide by that.

msnbc.com