40 Quotes by George J. Mitchell

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did.

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Stanford. It's a pretty good university, and everyone seems to like their academic stores.

We will provide those whose reputations have been, or might be called into question by these allegations, a fair opportunity to be heard.

We will strive to complete an investigation that is thorough, objective and fair. Our mission will be to gather facts, not conjecture.