Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise to a question of the privileges of the House and offer a resolution previously noticed. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the resolution. The Clerk read as follows: H. Res. 53 Whereas the United States has always been a proud multicultural Nation; Whereas since early in our history our Nation has recognized the strength that our diversity brings by making our national motto E Pluribus Unum; Whereas on July 13, 2006, on the floor of the House of Representatives, comparing immigrants to livestock, Representative Steve King of Iowa stated, ``We could also electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.''; Whereas on March 8, 2008, in an interview with KICD Studios, Representative King stated, ``I don't want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name--whatever their religion their father might have been. . . . I'll just say this: When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States--I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?''; Whereas on May 21, 2012, while speaking with constituents in Pocahontas, Iowa, Representative King compared vetting immigrants to choosing hunting dogs saying, ``You want a good bird dog? You want one that's going to be aggressive?…”