Peter King Quotes (64 Quotes)

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous.

By putting out ambiguous statements like that, he's only sowing seeds of doubt and confusion.

I respectfully disagree with Mike. Port security funding has gone up about 700 percent since 2001. Coast Guard funding has gone up 70 percent in the last six years. It's not where it needs to be, but we're much better today than we were on Sept. 11.

The department was set up primarily to protect us from another terrorist attack from Islamic terrorists, and yet they talk about everything but that.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

I have a great amount of respect for a guy who's still enthusiastic after 20, 30 or 40 years of what they do, ... When I saw Jerry at the Super Bowl in Jacksonville this year, I saw that here's a guy who, after so many years of doing this, is still involved in the game and in writing a story.

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

That has nothing to do with the White House, and for the Democrats to complain after they supported that blasphemous and slanderous movie by Michael Moore, which is the worst trash ever, and yet Democrats appearing at the premiere and the opening - it's absolutely disgraceful that the Democrats even raised that.

the Colts have no one to blame but themselves for the pickle in which they're now in. Allowing the league's premier player to even reach the precipice of free agency, to get within sniffing distance of potential freedom, is a catastrophic blunder.

I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

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FEMA must be equipped with the proper resources, communications and leadership to handle a worst-case scenario.

It has to do with a country that has had unusually close ties to terrorism, and it is a risk we just cannot take.

He can have that debate with Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer. They thought it was important enough to vote for it.

My legislation would cut off all funding for trials of anyone from Guantanamo in any court in the United States of America. This bill would help stop the misguided plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists on trial in Downtown Manhattan.

Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

I just don't know what Bush was thinking, ... He won the nomination, fine, but to win the White House he has to reach out to McCain and his voters.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

The world is safer today because of George Bush, 'cause of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya.

He decided Rick's a good candidate and it's in the best interest of the party to unify behind a strong candidate,

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

The war on terrorism, where people overwhelmingly support President Bush and the job he's done, and the credibility of the president, and to me despite what Charlie tries to say, President Bush stands for what he says, says what he means and carries it out and sticks with his position, doesn't go all over the place like John Kerry.

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The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

To be considering a candidate who has run three times against the Republican candidate for governor and pumped in a lot of money against the Republicans...shows what's wrong with the party,

What purpose could have been served by publicly questioning the decision of a local police department, especially one which has an outstanding track record

The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

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There's 39 guys that sit in that room, and I can't pretend that things like this have no effect, ... because when Lawrence Taylor came up for selection a few years ago two of the selectors said basically that they couldn't vote for him because of his drug past.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

We thought it was bad policy and bad politics, and I guess they accepted our argument. There's no need to antagonize organized labor,

He was shocked by it, ... He said everyone has an instinct to warn someone you know, but when you sign up for the job you have to give that up.

I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.

Right now we should all put our guns away and allow Newt and the leadership to negotiate with the president.

The people in Homeland Security who questioned the city were being totally petty and totally wrong and engaging in a petty turf war,

It's ironic that on the one hand the department is saying this is not a credible threat and then, if these e-mails are true, people within the department with access to classified information felt it was worth contacting their own families,

It is for them to conduct an investigation that they never conducted in the first place. There's concerns among Republicans that I've spoken to that the administration has not taken the investigation seriously. They want to have a real investigation a very intense investigation.

I think the reason NFL writers' jobs are going to be harder -- and the non-NFL Network media people will have a more difficult job being insightful -- is that once the season starts, coaches and players are going to set aside only so much time for the press, and most guys are going to be inclined when they have a choice to choose the NFL Network, which will portray them as white knights.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.