I'm an Angus King independent.

I went out to testify in front of the Ways and Means Committee out in Congress on open free trade to China. Now, this would affect literally every Minnesotan in some way or another, if not all Americans in some way or another....The local media sent no one out to cover my testimony....Well, then a couple weeks later, I go out to do The Young and the Restless, the TV soap opera, and everybody sends crews. We had to move them into a room in three different sections or three shifts of them because there was so much media covering that.

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.