Angus King

It ain't a partnership if one side has to give up everything, and the other side says, this is what we're going to do, and we're not going to give you any money to do it.

Budgets represent priorities, and it's fascinating to me that if you add together the cuts for service operations, forest and rangeland research, and state, private and tribal forestry, that pretty much exactly equals the proposed billion…

Veterans and military families should not see the value of their earned benefits undercut by rising costs.

What puzzles me is the budget that has been submitted only requests one. I don't really understand that.

The idea of building Naval Ships in a foreign shipyard I just don't understand.

There is talk around the budget about building ships and even destroyers in Japan and Korea. That is the worst idea since the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

One way to improve readiness is to repair our aircraft -- I almost said on the fly-- on the ground without waiting for the manufacturer to send a part.

There is no such thing as mandatory spending except in areas where there is a legal obligation to expend the money.

There are many problems with the plan as it has been reported, but the two most obvious are that it rewards Russia's illegal and unprovoked aggression by handing over substantial portions of Ukraine's sovereign territory, and its security…

It rewards aggression. This is pure and simple. There’s no ethical, legal, moral, political justification for Russia claiming eastern Ukraine.

It wasn't working. It's been six weeks.

The irony, the paradox is by shutting the government, we’re actually giving Trump more power. And that was why I voted yes.

I just came from the Senate floor, where I took one of the most difficult votes I’ve taken since I’ve been in the Senate.

The context is entirely different. The time is different. The president is different. I don’t see supporting anything that accelerates this president’s project to dismantle our government.

I had just had it. I kept expecting that Israel would wake up and realize what an awful thing they were perpetuating, and that surely they would at least open up humanitarian aid. They just continued to not do it, and I just reached the…

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

I cannot defend the indefensible... I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government.

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

That tragic event cannot in turn justify the enormous toll on Palestinian civilians caused by Israel's relentless bombing campaign and its indifference to the current plight of those trapped in what's left of Gaza.

Israel's actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.

For these reasons, I am through supporting the actions of the current Israeli government and will advocate—and vote—for an end to any United States support whatsoever until there is a demonstrable change in the direction of Israeli policy.

The starvation gripping Gaza is a deliberately induced famine among a civilian population—including tens of thousands of starving children and can never be an acceptable military strategy.

I cannot defend the indefensible. Israel’s actions in the conduct of the war in Gaza, especially its failure to address the unimaginable humanitarian crisis now unfolding, is an affront to human decency.

Disgusting..I have never seen a bill this irresponsible, regressive and downright cruel.

If it was important enough to tweet it, it would seem to me it was important enough to notify this committee.