Angus King

Applications are down something like 30 percent.

I am very disappointed that that is not part of the discussion.

The reason Iran is not North Korea today is because of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that was passed 2 years ago.

But to me for him to say it's going to hurt me, that doesn't square with what we saw from his '05 return.

It's just a hell of a way to run a railroad.

The Bangor City council wouldn't amend the leash law with a process like this. I mean it's embarrassing.

To call this a circus would be an insult to circuses.

The real question being ask tonight is, what tax bill? Believe it or not Anderson, nobody's seen it.

Before addressing the topic that I want to take up--and I know it is one that is near and dear to the Presiding Officer's heart--which is rural healthcare, I want to express my admiration and thanks to Senator Reed, the Senator from Rhode…

Clearly, we need to amend Stafford so that it is not simply rebuild what was there before.

Give us the science in a way we can understand it and absorb.

We can't make good policy without good data.

I respectfully request that we have an opportunity to explore that data before we are asked to mark up a bill.

I want to know what choices I am making. I don't want to make choices where I don't understand what the impacts are going to be.

I do not see how you can say this looks fine unless you know how many wells, how many miles of pipeline, or where they will be located.

Right now, there's no price to be paid for meddling in our democracy.

We have to develop that level of sophistication so that we know when we're being misled.

A new type of war has emerged in which armed warfare has given up its decisive place in the achievement of the military and political objectives of war to another kind of warfare: information warfare.

Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption.

I hope, as we are working on the rebuilding of the Puerto Rican grid, we can be thinking to the future instead of building a 20th century grid

I want to apologize to you and the witnesses. Speaking of technology, there is no effort made whatsoever around here to schedule hearings in any kind of coordinated way.

If you're independent minded and willing to take your own position on particular issue and try to reach out and solve problems, that can cost you your seat politically, and that's a dangerous place for us to be in.

Ultimately this is the responsibility of the White House, and I hope and believe that it will be implemented in short order.

So far the Russians aren't paying any price for what they did to our country last year, and they should.

My mind is racing, but I think prudence dictates no response.