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.

Quotes by year · 2009–2026549 total · peak 2025 (292)
2009: 1 quote2014: 11 quotes2016: 1 quote2024: 14 quotes2025: 292 quotes2026: 230 quotes
Oct 1, 2026

For too long, our military has been bogged down by the same old tired Washington playbook: spending trillions on exquisite weapons systems, while our troops live in aging bases, outdated barracks, and with inadequate infrastructure. That…

foxnews.com
Oct 1, 2026

It’s sick. It’s a national betrayal. It’s treason, actually.

foxnews.com
Oct 1, 2026

We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. No fatties, no trainees, no weirdos, no beardos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.

foxnews.com
Oct 1, 2026

Now the media calls that a purge. I call it accountability, and long overdue. And frankly, the bare minimum.

bbc.co.uk
Oct 1, 2026

The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in with testosterone testing on top. Diversity is not our strength. Unity is our strength.

bbc.co.uk
Sep 30, 2026

By embedding continuous military discipline and leadership development into new institutions, by growing our Corps of Cadets, the War Department will ensure our Republic is defended by even more officers of unwavering character…

dailycaller.com
Sep 30, 2026

The status quo of our officer pipeline is good.

dailycaller.com
Sep 30, 2026

We need students of western civilization and the pillars of our republic.

dailycaller.com
Sep 30, 2026

Qualities like grit and courage were replaced with political correctness and social justice.

dailycaller.com
Sep 30, 2026

From the Ivy Leagues to most liberal arts colleges, our colleges and universities have become anti-American, DEI-worshipping, woke factories.

dailycaller.com
Sep 30, 2026

A free press is, of course, important, but partisan activism that intentionally smears the troops and the historic mission that they're undertaking is fundamentally anti-American. It's sick. It's a national betrayal. It's treason, actually.

npr.org
Sep 30, 2026

No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.

npr.org