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.
either lower people piece seriously
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 legislation.
bill kennedy public senate ted welfare worked
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 Walter Mondale.
necessary
If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.
harder life produce
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
fantastic
I have a Twitter account; I have a fantastic Facebook page.
box guy senator somebody threat
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 box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'
state work
How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?
somebody
Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
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.
thinking would-be may
The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, ‘You may be a committee chair.’ I don’t think so. I don’t think anybody would want me that much,
responsibility government fundamentals
Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.
writing thinking apples
I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know, plug in a wire from one place to another. They're being asked to write new software that doesn't exist. They purposefully did not create this kind of backdoor...