Latest Steve King Quotes from Interviews

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• It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into households that were already assimilated in America, those babies will grow up as American as any other baby with as much patriotism and love of country as any other baby. It's not about race. It's never been about race. In fact the struggles across this planet, we describe them as race, they're not race. They're culture based. It's a clash of culture, not the race. Sometimes that race is used as an identifier.

  Steve King

  Country, Baby, Growing Up

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.

  Steve King

  Technology, Champion, Language

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• If we have an element of Americans here that reject western civilization, and that's a big element, that reject western civilization, then what have we? This is an effort on the left I think to break down the American civilization and the American culture and turn it into something entirely different.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Effort, Different

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We're a country here, that if you take a picture of what America looks like, you can do It in a football stadium or a basketball court and you see all different kinds of Americans There. We're pretty proud of that, the different looking Americans that are still Americans.

  Steve King

  Basketball, Football, Country

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I worked 30 years to try to restore respect for the rule of law because of Ronald Reagan's amnesty in 1986. And I don't want to let this go because somebody's heart got a little softer than it was before the election.

  Steve King

  Heart, Years, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I don't think you get that ask unless you first enforce the law, and demonstrate you secured the border. And still whatever this does to our hearts, and it tugs on mine, too, but the most important thing is to restore the respect for the rule of law.

  Steve King

  Heart, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Let's ask their parents. And will those children point to their parents and tell us you really need to enforce the law against my parents? Because they know what they were doing when they caused me to break the law. I don't think we've thought through this very well. But there's a reason why in the president's DACA programs he didn't grant his unconstitutional executive amnesty to the parents of dreamers.

  Steve King

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• This definition about against their will, that's a made up term. Did any of those little kids say I didn't want to come here? Did they say I was brought here against my will? Some of them were walking across the border on their own, lots of them, and we'll see them coming across every day at McCallum, Texas. They're still pouring across the border. They know what they're doing. It's not against their will.

  Steve King

  Kids, Texas, Borders

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

  Steve King

  People, Drug, Fairs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• When you look at this, I think that there's been such a hard push on this. The reason they're called DREAMers is because that's the most sympathetic term that could be applied to among all of these DREAMers, there are some awfully bad people. And these dreamers go on to the age of 37 or 38 or maybe older.

  Steve King

  Thinking, People, Dreamer

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.

  Steve King

  Wall, Mean, Air

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were illegally in the United States. It will simplify the adjudication and will expedite the voluntary return, and it will allow our border patrol officers to patrol both sides of that wall. And we can put surveillance devices on top of the wall, vibration detectors and other devices.

  Steve King

  Wall, Mushrooms, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• If his order from the president is to build a wall, John Kelly will build a wall. And I've got a design out there and I hope it's considered. There are other good designs out there. But he will get it done. He's a doer.

  Steve King

  Wall, Order, Design

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• In the department of homeland security and each agency that's there there's a morale problem. It's a different morale problem in each one.

  Steve King

  Agency, Different, Problem

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• I think that [John Kelly] will bring law and order. And what I'm hoping for with this is that the restoration of the rule of law, especially with regard to immigration, that is the main principle that needs to be driven by the secretary of homeland security.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Law, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• It would probably be a direct order, shape up your morale. And so he understands command. He understands how to delegate. And I think that [General John Kelly] will bring law and order.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I think if you serve under John Kelly your morale is going to be good.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Morale, Be Good

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We know about General John Kelly's military experience and his record there and being a decorated veteran of combat over in Iraq in particular. In fact, that's where I first met him was when Ramadi was shot to shambles during the surge era. We took a ride around there, even a minaret was shot in half and he pointed to that and said we were taking fire from that minaret. My son took that down with a 20 milimeter cannon. That's my first impression of John Kelly.

  Steve King

  Military, Son, Iraq

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• If I listen to a campaign promises, I would expect that on the first day [Donald Trump] would cancel all of the DACA documents out there that President [Barack] Obama unconstitutionally issued.

  Steve King

  Promise, President, Firsts

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• President-elect [Donald] Trump has said thousands of times, I will build a wall. He didn't just say he'll build a wall. I'll build a great wall and it will be a beautiful wall, and I'll make the Mexicans pay for it.

  Steve King

  Beautiful, Wall, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I'm calling upon president-elect [Donald] Trump to not just settle for a wall.Let's build a fence, then a wall, then a fence, so we create two no man's lands, one on either side of the wall. That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse.

  Steve King

  Wall, Men, Land

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I've spent a fair amount of time down at the border.I have watched as these packs of marijuana are on the backs of young men that are walking across the border. They're hauling an average of about 65 pounds, some of them every day they take another load.

  Steve King

  Marijuana, Men, Average

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• There`s one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he`s essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

  Steve King

  Way, Opportunist, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• I think that different leaders, whether it`s Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Paul Ryan, saying that we`re not going to turn on each other, which is exactly what ISIS wants. I think that`s what this moment calls for and I think, right now, you see who are the pandering demagogues, and who are the people who really have a higher standard and the best public interest at heart.

  Steve King

  Heart, Thinking, Isis

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• George W. Bush, another Republican who I probably didn`t agree with on much, right after 9/11 went to a mosque and joined with some Muslim leaders and said that, look, you know, we`re not going to tolerate any backlash. These people who attacked our country are criminals and they`re terrorists, and they might try to profess a religion, but they definitely violate the principles of that religion.

  Steve King

  Country, People, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com