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Steven Arnold King (born May 28, 1949) is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa's 4th congressional district; the district is located in the northwestern part of the state and includes Sioux City. King is a member of the Republican Party and has served in Congress since 2003.

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I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.

Assimilation, Come, Opinion, Prepared

When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.

Animal, Fighting, Induce, People, Thinking, Watch

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.

Ask, Children, Daca, Grant, Law, Thinking

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.

Across, Average, Marijuana, Men, Pounds, Watched

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.

Barack, Campaigns, Day, Issued, President, Promise

Muslims are a part of the fabric of this country. By the way, they always have been, and more so now than ever.

Country, Fabric, Way

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.

Agree, Country, Leader, People, Profess, Said

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.

Create, Land, Men, Wall, Way

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.

Hammock, Hammocks, Hateful, Net, Safety

Earl Nightingale never let a day go by that he didn`t learn something new and, in turn, pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.

Earl, Learn, Passion, Something New, Turn, Turns

The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

Idaho, Iraqi, Lying, People, Solution

So I think there's going to be a constituent backlash against this thing soon, as they see it moving in that direction. . . Whether they can pass something before the American public wakes up, I don't know.

Against, American, Immigration, Moving, Thing, Thinking

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.

Against, Borders, Definition, Kids, Mccallum, Texas

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.

Direct, General, Law, Order, Thinking

What Planned Parenthood is doing is not the faith that I believe in, but Jesus never ordered anyone to be killed and he never raised his hand to injure anyone specifically. But Mohammed did and there is a big difference in this.

Believe, Hand, Hands, Jesus, Killed, Parenthood

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.

America, Basketball, Country, Football, Take

I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe.

Apostrophe, Assimilate, Catholic, Sound, Work, Work Ethic

Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him.

Confronted, Proud, Stood, Trump, Ugly

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren`t going to back on.

Different, Islam, People, Religion, Religion Of Islam, Years

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

America, Chance, Day, Glasses, Half, Way

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