Quotes by Peter T. King

About Peter T. King:

Peter Thomas is the U.S. Representative for New York's 2nd congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party and represents the central Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau and Suffolk counties.
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Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

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The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

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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 th...

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

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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...

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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 Manh...

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Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.

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

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

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

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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.

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When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter T. King
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • AliasesPete King; Peter Thomas King; Peter T. King
  • BornApril 5, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician