Angus King Quotes

Angus King — American Politician born on March 31, 1944,

Angus Stanley King, Jr. 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... (wikipedia)

If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

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

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.

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.

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

Angus King Quotes

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