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Angus King
American
Politician
Born:
Mar 31
,
1944
Committee
Going
How
Old
Work
You
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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.'
Angus King
Vote
Somebody
Say
System
Threat
Guy
Put
Come
Know
Well
Box
How
Unencumbered
Senator
Going
Oh
Realize
Whole
Profound
Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
Angus King
Me
You
Somebody
Think
Would
Said
Committee
May
Anybody
Want
Much
Chair
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.
Angus King
Time
Election
Think
Independent
Running
Point
Had
Part
Voters
Been
Governor
Won
Senate
Getting
Where
Hard
Hard Part
Waste
Waste Of Time
Credibility
Thinkable
How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?
Angus King
Work
You
State
Someone
How
Campaign
Against
Them
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.
Angus King
Welfare
Old
Boss
Had
Labor
Senate
Committee
Public
Worked
Bill
Public Welfare
Kennedy
Ted
Ted Kennedy
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.
Angus King
You
Vote
People
Seriously
Edge
About
Feel
Piece
Make
Got
Legislation
Either
Really
Lower
View
Filibuster
I have a Twitter account; I have a fantastic Facebook page.
Angus King
Facebook
Twitter
Account
Fantastic
Page
My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.
Angus King
Long
Independent
Subject
Effective
Being
Desire
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.
Angus King
Money
Remember
Old
Richard Nixon
Congress
Enough
Presidency
Spend
Nixon
Imperial
Had
He
Refusing
Old Enough
Richard
I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.
Angus King
Politics
Back
No Intention
Had
Retired
Getting
Intention
Happily
Teaching
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