We have to be careful not to allow this to get any legitimacy. I'm taking this seriously in that I'm old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can't allow that to happen.

On Occupy Wall Street movement, Rep. Peter King Calls Occupy Wall Street Protesters 'Ragtag Mob,' 'Anarchists', 2011