Angus King Quotes

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Angus King

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 31, 1944

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.

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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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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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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.

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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 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.

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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 box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'

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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 Walter Mondale.

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

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

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