Quotes from Steve King

We've heard some things from Pope Francis that are not fully supportive of free enterprise capitalism. That should be a problem from an American perspective.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

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

I've noticed that some Democrats, who seldom mention their faith or maybe never mention their faith, will seize on to a phrase that Pope Francis may have said, and they want to attach themselves to that agenda. Political opportunists is what they are.

I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

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.

Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the reasons for that is it's borrowed from other cultures along the way, back to Mosaic law, the Greek age of reason, Roman law and the Roman order of government, and the Republican form of government, by the way that we're guaranteed in our constitution.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

Of course I would disagree that there's a definitive science that has concluded that mankind has turned the earth's thermostat up and that we can turn the earth's thermostat down at will, we just haven't yet found the will. That's the argument on climate change.

I believe Ted Cruz is the candidate that's the answer to my prayers. A candidate whom God will use to restore the soul of America.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

Christian abolitionists gave their lives by the hundreds of thousands to end slavery.

Citizenship must be precious, not handed out like candy in a parade. We don't ride along and throw out citizenship like you do M&M's or Tootsie Rolls or whatever it is we're tossing out in our parades.

Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.

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.

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.

We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress.' That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood, and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery.

Our focus on melanin and people's skins - can't we talk about the diversity of ideology? Can't we look at people for their minds and what they can contribute? And I'd like to see us go more toward a respect for people's ability to contribute, and I actually want to get to a society where we disregard race.