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George J. Mitchell

"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."

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"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

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"I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine."
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"I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there."
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"From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time."
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"I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have."
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"In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time."
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"First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures."
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"You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it."
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"I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge."
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"I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money."
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