Pete Hoekstra: “All the stuff below the line on the President's proposal is new debt for our children.”

I thought the Ontario ad campaign was outrageous, calling it the first time in the U.S.’s 250-year history that a foreign government has tried to influence the outcome of upcoming elections.

You get calls and request to meet with folks and… if they’re people that are working on issues that may have an impact on U.S. relations, there’s a good chance we’ll meet with them, just to get some kind of perspective.

As long as the president of the United States think I’m doing a good job, I’ll be here.

I’m trying to tell Canadians and give them an insight into exactly what the president of the United States thinks.