Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

I'm an Angus King independent.

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

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.