Angus King

If we are fielding a weapon as the standard weapon that cannot penetrate the body armor of our adversaries in a close fight, that is unethical.

I do not want to go home to Maine and say, well, we talked a lot about this but we didn't do anything.

The best defense is if the public knows what's happening and they say, oh, it's just the Russians again.

I do think leadership matters, however. And I do think that we've had -- that the -- this whole process has tainted the senior leadership for the Justice Department to the point where they have a statutory ability to appoint something…

I think a special council on the FBI side would be very helpful just in terms of credibility.

Credibility is the key.

It's troubling because the assertion -- and I just brought the letter with me. The firing was based, he says, I have this memo from the deputy attorney general and the attorney general recommending your dismissal.

We cannot defend ourselves. We cannot install defenses that are so expensive that they far outweigh the risk.

It seems to me this is a place for American ingenuity and inventiveness and creativity to market for somebody.

We are seeing warfare change before our eyes.

The larger of the two was attended by over 1,400 people, the vast majority of whom spoke in support of the National Monument.

I was disappointed in the president's speech last night because he's still in campaign mode, talking strictly to his people.

Anytime he makes a move, in fact at the beginning of this session, he talked about, you know, 'We're going to try to work with the president when it's necessary and when we believe he's right.' Huge reaction from the Democratic base.

I don't think it's the personalities of the leaders, but I think you're onto something in the sense that the pressures on the leaders to be partisans first is very intense.

I think what you learn is to listen. And I think, I remember-- You know, everybody thought Hillary was going to win in the day before. And I remember saying, 'If and when she wins, she's got to do some serious listening to the people who…

I still remain somewhat concerned that you end up with a trove of data that involves American citizens, that can then be queried without further intervention by the court, which to me is the essence of the Fourth Amendment.

I think we all need to study the Thucydides Trap with regard to China.

That is when wars start, is misunderstanding, misperception of each side's moves.

One of the things that really concerns me about the situation that we are in now, which is one of the most dangerous I can remember in my adult life, is accidental escalation, misperception.

During our debate on the JCPOA, the intelligence community informed us that an all-out strike on the nuclear capacity of Iran would delay their program 2 years.

The real nightmare is nonstate actors obtaining nuclear weapons for whom deterrence would not work.

What we are talking about is finding those places, not the entire grid, but finding places where simplicity, and perhaps even old technology, could be an isolating factor.

This is a continuing ongoing and certainly future threat, is it not?

But they weren't going into those State election systems just for recreation. There was some purpose.

My understanding of the intelligence is that it doesn't appear that they changed votes or vote tallies in this election.