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
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.
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,
state work
How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?
intention politics retired
I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.
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.
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.'
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.