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Angus King

(1944) Politician

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Angus King is a politician.

Quick Facts About Angus King

Born: March 31, 1944
Profession: Politician

About Angus King

[Wikidata] American politician and lawyer (born 1944)... | [Wikipedia] Angus Stanley King Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who has served since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Maine. A political independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party, he served from 1995 to 2003 as the 72nd governor of Maine.

Quotes by Angus King

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

Account

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I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or,…

Apples

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The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would…

Chairs

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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…

Across

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I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.

American people

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There's a host of difficult issues here, and that's why when you mentioned at the top of the show that the committees…

Committees

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The intelligence community, in particular the FBI, have been sounding alarms about this for more than a year. So to argue that…

Alarms

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I haven't seen - I haven't heard the arguments that would make that case. And I haven't seen a proposal yet that…

Argument

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We are at this moment where what concerns me is that we're all so caught up in Donald Trump, James Comey, and…

Caught up

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

Against

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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.

Being

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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…

America

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Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide…

Common

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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.

Doing

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The idea of some contact of Donald Trump's office with the Russians to try to find areas of common ground is not…

Common

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James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he…

Accepted

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

Assignment

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I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

Back

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I would say it would be worth it if, in fact, it would - if you could demonstrate that that would be…

Around the world

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My view of the filibuster is either you've got to lower vote edge or make people really filibuster if they feel that…

About

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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…

Been

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I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging…

Justice

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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…

Congress

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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…

Bill

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What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well,…

Access

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