Angus King actually said...

"if you have a large, cumbersome, slow structure, you will have cumbersome, slow, consensus-driven, and ultimately unsatisfactory policy or strategy"

"We are also fighting an idea. And I think if there is any gap in the--well, there are several gaps, but one of the serious gaps is the clash of ideas gap."

"consensus is the enemy. You cannot adapt if you have a consensus-based process"

"I think literally a structure that builds competition and contrarianism into the system might be salutary."