Angus King Quotes

born 1944 United States

Angus Stanley King, Jr. (born 31 March 1944) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from the state of Maine. As an Independent, not affiliated with either the Republican or Democratic parties, he served as the 72nd Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003.

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We need to take a deep breath and do things that maybe don't fit the normal picture of what we're supposed to do at that stage of life.

Bowdoin Academic Spotlight interview (2011)

I always had a kind of Myth of Cincinnatus idea about politics — that public service was something you do for a while in between stints at real life. And when your time is up, you return to the plow, which is hopefully still somewhere close to where you left it.

Governor's Travels : How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a Bus, and Found America (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Angus King (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.