Angus King
Angus King
Angus Stanley King, Jr.is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from the state of Maine. As a political independent, he served as the 72nd Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003, winning his first election in a 3-way race with 35.37% of the vote...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1944
CountryUnited States of America
imperial money presidency refusing richard spend
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
intention politics retired
I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.
state work
How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?
across people prepared reward solve talk whom work
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 don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.
hard point running senate thinkable time voters won
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 is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.
america people want
Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.
country keys government
I haven't seen - I haven't heard the arguments that would make that case. And I haven't seen a proposal yet that satisfies the objections. The problem is, you create a key like this, and it can't - it's hard to say that it's going to be hidden. And then it becomes used both by our government in multiple cases, but also it could get out as far as hackers are concerned or other countries.
My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.