Steve King

This is an America that has been built upon the foundation of a good number of things--the pillars of American exceptionalism. Now, some of these are pretty simple. They are in the Bill of Rights: freedom of speech, religion, and the…

Let's just back up a little bit. Let's back up all the way to October of 1929 and think about what's really happened. This Nation has been challenged over and over again to come forward and determine where we are with our economy. What…

Didn't they strike ``lawful contact'' and just put in ``stop, detention, or arrest?''

I wanted to go back through a couple of points the gentleman has made with regard to the Arizona law. One of them would be, my recollection is that 'lawful contact' was amended to say 'stop, detention, or arrest.' I happen to have had a…

I would very much encourage the people in this administration to support Israel, support them in their self-defense in the Middle East, and understand that there have been some things that have taken place in this country that undermine…

I made the point in my question that President Obama had engaged in, supported, and participated in the nationalization of about half of our private sector, and that is the three large investment banks, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac…

Would we choose some mainline IV drug users off the streets to go in and take IVs in hospitals because they happen to have had the kind of experience that they're good at even though it's illegal? If somebody were proficient in how he…

This is the most open, the most honest government in history, and we are drawing conclusions based upon not getting an answer as opposed to the answer that we might get if they would just simply give us the information. I mean, this really…

If they'd done the testing. There are reports out there that there is testing that had failed some 10 days or so before the well, itself, had failed. Now, I don't know if that's true or not. I don't want to start a rumor.

Just remind me. I'm standing here thinking we're drawing a rational conclusion that the Minerals Management Service would not release the information that showed the results of the testing of the blowout preventer.

As I watch this regulation that's coming through in the financial services component of this, it's a regulation that sets up Tim Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, to decide which businesses are too big to be allowed to fail, which…

I am a bit perplexed that the Attorney General couldn't or wouldn't point to a part of the Constitution that he thought might be violated by Arizona law or point to a Federal statute that might be violated by Arizona law or point to a…

In fact, I don't know any two people that would probably have less favor in rewriting the financial laws in America than those two individuals. They have had a long time now to investigate what has happened with the finances in America and…

I have had the privilege to travel to some of the corners of America in the last few weeks and had my conversations in the coffee shops and in the restaurants and in city halls and in meeting places, and I was a little bit surprised…

It's based upon the private sector activity as analyzed by Dr. Boyle of Arizona State University, who's written the analysis and the article on it, Mr. Akin.

We are at least at 51 percent that has been nationalized, and that's the banks, the insurance, Fannie and Freddie, the car companies, and then Obamacare. That's 51 percent.

Let me add up the percentages of the formerly private sector from a year and a half ago, and it comes to 74 percent of the private sector would be either nationalized today or nationalized with the two acts that are pending that they're…

I came tonight to talk about a couple of subject matters. One of them that is on the front of my mind is the tax situation here in the United States. We are watching and we watched as the two Bush tax cuts were passed over the last 8 or so…

I've watched us turn from a nation of rugged, can-do, highly spirited people to a nation that is slowly, and I shouldn't say slowly, dramatically turning into a nanny state. I grew up in a society where we understood we had freedom, and we…

I remember it now when you say it. $44,000. And now I think in terms of, if you have all the free time in the world to do whatever it is you want to do and you have rent subsidy and heat subsidy and food stamps and the refundable child…

But under current value and current dollars, a child born today, for being a natural-born American citizen, their share of the national debt is $44,000. That's like here's your mortgage, sign here with your little ink footprint when you're…

A ``secured creditor'' would be someone who holds collateral, which is a guaranty that's behind the bond. I'm going to say that it includes, perhaps, real property, which could be the actual factory, itself. It could be the equipment…

My goal is to inspire people to stand up for the Constitution, to stand up for fiscal responsibility and stand up for the rule of law.

I do not believe that we're going to be forgetting this, nor will we be backing off. The first order of business this morning issued a bill draft request to repeal this legislation that passed the House last night, the Senate version of…

I listened to this discussion, and what I get out of this is one thing: this national health care bill doesn't play in Peoria. I mean, Peoria where the national headquarters of Caterpillar are. The world's largest heavy equipment…