George J. Mitchell Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”