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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.

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Fighting, Animal, Thinking

"GOP congressman Steve King accused of 'in-your-face racism' after he said non-white 'subgroups' had not contributed to civilization". www.dailymail.co.uk. July 19, 2016.

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For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

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Memorable, Marijuana, People

"Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration". Interview with Todd Beamon and John Bachman, www.newsmax.com. July 18, 2013.

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There`s one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he`s essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

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Way, Opportunist, Trump

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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.

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Jesus, Believe, Hands

"All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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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.

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Country, Patriotic, Loyal

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My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well.

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Talking, Law, Civilization

"5 best quotes from Steve King's rambling floor speech" by Jillian Rayfield, www.salon.com. July 25, 2013.

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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.

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Kids, Texas, Borders

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning.

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Responsibility, Compassion, People

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I hope we are able to shift debate over to the Middle East and change this debate to how we help the people in their home countries rather than believing we can be their relief valve for the poverty and the grief that`s in the world by bringing people here.

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Country, Grief, Believe

"All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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

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Country, Fabric, Way

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

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Thinking, Iowa, People

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Which is superior, the Constitution or Sharia law? In Sharia law by their teachings is superior to everything else, it replaces everything else, it replaces the Constitution itself. So, you can`t be assimilated into the American civilization and accept Sharia law as being superior to our Constitution. It`s antithetical to Americanism.

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Teaching, Law, Civilization

"All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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These two value systems [islam and U.S constitution] do not clash in any way, and my son is a member of the United States Armed Forces active duty. He`s proud to serve his country. And there are many more people who are exact same thing.

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Country, Son, Two

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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.

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Glasses, America, Half

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Even Republicans seem to think that these undocumented Democrats could be made [GOP] voters...and what happens is that two out every three that would be legalized [and] become Democrats. And it's not 12 million. It's more like 20 million...But it isn't just the equation of 2/3 of over 20 million that will vote for the guy who opposes our conservative candidate whoever that might be, but it's also those who will leave us if we fail them...We have to go back and tie together and restore the pillars of American exceptionalism and the rule of law is essential.

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Thinking, Law, Two

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I`m quite confident that when you spew out hateful [anti-islam]rhetoric, you green-light people who are - who have violent and who are dangerous, and that`s why we have to watch what we say. Words do matter.

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Light, People, Islam

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I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.

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Technology, Champion, Language

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said.

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Kings, Thinking, Higher Ground

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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.

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Passion, Something New, Turns

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The solution really has to lie within the Iraqi people.

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Lying, Idaho, People

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That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

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Keys, Law, Constitution

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Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken.

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Obamacare, Voters, Republican

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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.

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Opinion, Assimilation, Prepared

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

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Jobs, Taxpayers, Saved

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I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans would advocate that advocating for comprehensive immigration reform is somehow a political solution for the Republicans losing a percentage of Hispanics. I probably have less appetite for this than either the Senate or colleagues in the House, certainly the Democrats and most likely members of the Republican Conference. They are still wrestling with trying to get their education up to a level where they can actually advocate for policy.

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Wrestling, House, Political

"Immigration talks gain momentum". www.politico.com.

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"It's the culture, not the blood. If you can go anywhere in the world and adopt these babies and put them into households that were already assimilated in America, those babies will grow up as American as any other baby with as much patriotism and love of country as any other baby. It's not about race. It's never been about race. In fact the struggles across this planet, we describe them as race, they're not race. They're culture based. It's a clash of culture, not the race. Sometimes that race is used as an identifier."

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