Peter King Quotes

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Belief, Country, God

• George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry’s war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that’s his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.

  Peter King

  Topics in America

  Tags in Judgement, Records

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Community

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

  Peter King

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Muslims

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in America

  Tags in Situation

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Approve

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Government and Rule

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Working

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in America, Technology

  Tags in Think, World

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

  Peter King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Away

• 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.’

  Peter King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Killing

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Work

  Tags in People, Think, Enemies

• In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

  Peter King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Benefit, Doubt

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in America

  Tags in Terrorist

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Think, Rules

• I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community.

  Peter King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Think

• The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we’re finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

  Peter King

  Topics in Country

  Tags in American

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

  Peter King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Department, Talk, Talking

• 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.

  Peter King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Practice

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

  Peter King

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in United States

Peter King (29)

Birth:	5th April, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Attorney, Politician

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