Steve King actually said...

"if the taxpayers that were funding then at $18,000 a year to incarcerate criminals actually had to pay the full amount of the damage due to crime, they would then incarcerate criminals--more of them a..."

"I think it's maybe not unique, but it might be unique in this Congress."

"the price for crime is paid not by the taxpayers across the board, on average, so that we all share in that, but it's paid in great, huge, whopping chunks from the victims of crimes themselves."

"The crime victims really don't have rights under the origin of the Old English common law."