Angus King

"I'm giving it some thought for the very reason that Olympia quit. It's just not working down there and maybe we need to try something different. … We have serious problems in this country but we can't…"

"I don't have any illusions that I'm naively going to go down and Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are going to say, "Angus, tell us how to do this." I mean, I know that's not going to work. But I think,…"

"We could send down a combination of Pericles and Thomas Jefferson, and if that person's reporting to Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell , he's going to be ineffective. … Every vote is a test vote. Every vo…"

"When people asked me in a RV park, "What do you do?" I just said, "I'm a retired state employee from Maine."

"King's motorhome trip to see America"

"My approach to the job can be summed up pretty simply — I never viewed politics as my career. Important, yes, worthy of intense commitment, of course — but it was not my whole life. … I saw politics a…"

"I think we're going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access that's going to transform education. … The economic future will belong to the technologically adept."

"I think I can honestly say that if Olympia had announced her retirement because of ill health or to spend more time with Jock I probably wouldn't have run. … What perked me up is why she is leaving. O…"