Zitat des Tages von Angus King:
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.
I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.
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.'
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.
Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
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.