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13 quotes by Angus King

Angus Stanley King, Jr. (born March 31, 1944) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from the state of Maine. A political independent, he served as the 72nd Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003. King won Maine's 2012 Senate election to replace the retiring Republican Olympia Snowe and took office on January 3, 2013. For committee assignment purposes, he caucuses with the Democratic Party.
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If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

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My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

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It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part... →

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How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?

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I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

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I have a Twitter account; I have a fantastic Facebook page.

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I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had... →

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One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

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Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

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I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you... →

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I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and... →

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I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in a... →

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My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that seriously about a piece of... →

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