Angus King

I am trying to figure out whether this is the Sudetenland in 1938 or Sarajevo in 1914.

He has got an 80 percent approval rating in Russia principally because of nationalism and his strong man image.

This is one of the most far-sighted, in fact, visionary statutes passed in the last 100 years.

This whole discussion, to me, is a great big example of the failure of Congress to adequately address the country's needs.

They are one of the few things we can do around here that is permanent, as permanent as anything can be.

I rise to support this amendment. This simply simplifies the repayment options for students under the present student loan program, which is, frankly, very confusing--up to nine different programs with confusing names and confusing terms…

It could very shortly turn into a true disruptive technology.

In my experience having good data is what drives good policy, and if people can share an understanding of the data they can generally get to the policy conclusions without that much difficulty.

I would ask Senator Barrasso to come to Maine and tell the people of Maine the virtues of higher oil prices.

One of the realities here is that none of us can really predict where the technology will go.

The only thing we can say for sure about any of our predictions is that they will be wrong.

Lower oil prices... comes to $770 for every man, woman and child in the state.

It seems to me, Mr. Chairman, this has been brilliant, and what we need to be thinking about is a broad strategy to deal with a very rapidly changing circumstance similar to the containment strategy but a different strategy.

I certainly hope we'll use our influence to the maximum, because if that doesn't--if that inclusion doesn't happen, then this whole enterprise is for naught.

It appears that these recent moves, they've simply said, 'We're going to shore up Assad, no matter what.'

They have to decide that ISIS is a bigger threat to them than the loss of Assad.

Perhaps there's a way to assure that without necessarily guaranteeing the presence of Assad.

The opposition will never push Assad out as long as Russia and Iran are all-in.

We cannot allow Europe to continue to create these problems for the world and for us.

Abadi is the key right now.

We had a little matter of a civil war here.

It seems to me that what we are seeing--you mentioned the phrase, 'I've seen this movie before.' And we have seen this movie, the whole movie before.

It took 40 years but it succeeded.

We keep just trying to slap a band-aid on the problem and hope it goes away.

Abraham Lincoln once said if he was given an hour to split a cord of wood, he would spend the first 15 minutes sharpening his axe.