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George Mitchell

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“Its acquisition and use must be a lifelong experience. You can't think that you've ended your learning period when you got your degree. In fact, you're just beginning. You've got to keep up with it. And that, I think, is so necessary in the age of technological change through which we're living. You can see it in ordinary life. I'll finish with this humorous story. I have a son who's in college, 20 years old, a daughter who's seventeen. I walked into the den about a year ago. My son has earplugs on. The television is on, and his computer screen is on. And I said, what are you doing? He said, I'm studying That's an example of listening to the airports, watching the working, watching television, you have to keep learning. People should think every, and you wake up every morning, what am I going to learn today?”
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“Every day of my life has been a learning experience, and I think the single greatest change in American attitudes that is required and that our leaders should be encouraging. To end the notion that education begins when you enter kindergarten and ends when you graduate from high school or college. The explosion of knowledge, the advances of science and technology are overwhelming and knowledge.”
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“Hardest to get, most important than the respect of others. And I think the way you get them is by service to others. And I tell graduates all the time, if you are lucky, if you are lucky, you will first succeed in what I would define as traditional terms, and then you will figure out that there's got to be more to life than this. And you will find in your life some objective that engages all of your physical and spiritual might that is larger than your self-interest and that helps others.”
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“I would encourage them. It's very tough, but it's by far the most rewarding thing I've ever done. I believe that human beings are wired to seek what we define as success, wealth, the acquisition of property and other things. Status, recognition But the more those things you get The more you realize that in reality life is a never ending search for respect. First and most important self respect.”
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“It's only about 100 pages long. It's absolutely brilliant. Written years ago, there was a great professor first at Princeton, then he was at the University of California at Santa Cruz named Paige Smith. He wrote a two volume history of John Adams. Then he wrote about a, I think it's about seven volumes of a social history of the United States. It's not a political history Absolutely brilliantly written, fascinating. The single most interesting book I've ever read is one of his volumes on the period of Reconstruction in the United States. following the Civil War, filled with information about, I think, most Americans aren't aware of what happened during the period of Reconstruction.”
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“Well, some are way out of date. As a young man, I read the entire, I think it's about nine-volume history of civilization by a man named Will Durant, his wife Ariel Durant.”
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“I've also read a great many books about the origins of human beings, the history of civilization and so forth. I like reading that kind of stuff. I read a lot of that.”
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“That's right. Yeah, he's a terrific writer. Both of them great. I've written five books, but... I'm an amateur. I think these guys are really professionals. Another great. Is Colin McCann. He's an Irish American. written great books let the great worlds let the world spin he wrote one called transatlantic in which he featured me so how can i help but liking him”
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“Rise the Nazis, Chris L Also, I'm now reading his book about the sinking of the Lusitania. He's a terrific, terrific writer and has become good. Chris Larson.”
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“I want to mention one of the guys, a guy named Chris. Oh God, I'm blanking on it now. He's a good friend. He's written several books. He wrote in The Garden of the Beasts about the.”
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“Gosh, he just had one. Stand up, I think is the name of it. I'm not sure of it. He just published one about two years ago.”
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“Human endurance and courage and strength. And then I started reading and I've read mostly history since then. And that's pretty much what I read now. I've had the good pleasure of meeting some terrific writers at a conference that I spoke at. I met Harlan Coburn, who's one of the best-known crime writers in the world.”
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“Men against the sea is the second one in Pitcairn's Island is the third one. So to me, those are the most memorable books I've ever read. Of course, I love them. I couldn't get overe, especially Men Against the Sea, which is not widely known. It's a tremendous, dramatic story.”
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“Same book was called Parnassus on Wheels. It was a story about a mobile library, quite an interesting story actually. And then everything. I felt badly when she said I'm on my own because I enjoyed my interaction with her. But I went to the library, the school library, the public library, and finally I kept trying to think, what would she think about this? I read three books called The Bounty Trilogy.”
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“She handed me another book. I read that took up my whole junior, and at the end of the year she said to me, You're on your own. I want you to pick out the next book you're going to read.”
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“Really didn't read anything other than what was needed for school. So she opened her desk, pulled out a book, and handed it to me, and said I'd like you to read this, and come back and tell me about it. She said it won't affect your grade one way or the other, but I think you should start reading books. The book was a small one. It's called The Novella. The Moon is down written by John Steinbeck, a story, a fictional account of the Nazi occupation in Norway during the Second World War. I read it that night. I was fascinated. I took it back the next day because I loved her, I wanted to impress her, and so I gave a book report oral that's almost longer than the written book.”
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“One of the most influential persons in my life was my high school English teacher. I was a junior. She's a wonderful woman named Elvira Whitten. straight as an arrow, diction perfect. One of the brilliant kind women I've ever met. One day she called me in after school. She said, what do you read? And I didn't quite comprehend the question. I said, what do you mean? She said, well, books, what books do you read?”
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“Long after I've been forgotten, people will remember the man I called the real George Mitchell because he changed the course of history. You can argue about the benefits or disadvantages. There are problems arrives with that. But eight American presidents promised to make America energy independent. Not one of them could do it, but the son of an illiterate goat herder from the hills of Greece did what they couldn't do.”
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“the largest energy producer in the world. The sun. From the hills of Greece, who changed his name because nobody could pronounce a smell, a spell his name. That's the story America. And I'll say one thing to you.”
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“He wanted something better so he came to America. He got a job on the railroad. He was a good worker. At the end of the first week, when they paid him, the paymaster said to him, You're a good worker, we want you to stay, but nobody can spell or pronounce your name. You've got to change your name. So Sava said to the paymaster, what's your name? The paymaster was an Irish guy. He said, Mike Mitchell. Savas said, okay, that's going to be my name now. So Mike Mitchell, after he finished working on the railroad, moved to Galveston, Texas. He opened his shoeshine shop. He shines shoes for a living. He had a son. He named George Mitchell. The son was smart, ambitious. He went to Texas A and M, he got a degree in engineering. He then became an extremely wealthy person in the oil and gas industry, and he invented fracking, horizontal drilling, and those things that have resulted in the United States now being.”
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“Possess a spike of genius. Let me tell you a story about a guy named George Mitchell. Not me, the guy I called the real George Mitchell. It began in the hills of rural Greece over a hundred years ago there was a goat herder, a young guy, young man a goat herder named Savas Paris Gavolis.”
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“They can't let everybody in, so we need a rational fair system to bring people in. I don't object to the president saying we want to try to get people with skills. Of course we should, but that should not be used as an excuse to eliminate immigration altogether. Because you never know what's coming in a second generation, as we saw in the case of Steve Jobs and many, many others. My mother was an immigrant. She could not read or write. She spent 50 years working in textile mills on the night shift. My father was the often son of immigrants. He had no education. He was a janitor at a local school. So I, one generation removed, was lucky to get an education and go on to become the majority leader of the United States Senate. You don't know now who among these people coming in possesses a spark of genius or whose child”
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“Amazon was created by Jeff Bezos, whose adoptive father was born in Cuba. And one of the conders of Google was Sergei Bin, who himself was born in Russia. Ask yourself, would we be a better country if they had not been admitted? And ask yourself also what are the chances that if he'd lived his life in Syria, Steve Jobs would have created Apple, or Jeff Bezos in Cuba, or Sergei Brin in Russia. Genius knows no language, no religion, no race, it can be found wherever they are human beings, but it tends to flourish where there's freedom and opportunity, and that's the United States.”
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“Only once two North Korean guys had escaped from a concentration camp swam the river into China. Meanwhile, tens of millions want to come here, and they want to come here because they see freedom and opportunity. You've never met or heard of an immigrant who said I came to America because you got the best cruise missiles. They come here because they think we have freedom and opportunity. So we need a balance. We need a rational system for a future. Treating people fairly, living up the ideals of our country, and to keep the benefits coming. Think about these facts. In 2016, seven Americans received Nobel Prizes. Six of them were immigrants. About this fact three of the most successful companies in the world are Apple, Amazon, and Google. Apple was created by Steve Jobs, whose father was born in Syria.”
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“were not passed until America was a hundred years old. The Chinese exclusion act passed in eighteen eighty two to keep out Chinese because a lot of them had come to help work on the transcontinental railway. There were more passed in 1921 and 1924. Now the truth is the reality. No reasonable American thinks that we can go back to the days of open immigration. We can't let come into our country anybody who wants to come. There are too many tens of millions of people around the world who want to come, which is flattering to us. Think about this for a fact people who say, well, China's the dominant rise in country. Have you ever heard of anybody risking their life to break into China?”
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“Later Canada was established as independent countries and the same followed over a longer period of time in Central and Latin America. The negative attitudes of demonization, of thinking of people as other was there from the beginning The Spanish hated the French, the French hated the British. They all fought the Dutch, Wall Street, the name comes from the wall built there by the Dutch settlers who settled New Amsterdam, and they were building it to protect themselves against the British, not against the Native Americans. And that persisted for a long time in a history. Now, negative attitudes about others. Are a part of human history. And it's existed in our country somewhat offset once our country was created by the need for people to fill this vast continent. But the first negative”
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“Everybody in America came from somewhere else. Human beings first appeared on Earth about three hundred thousand years ago, and they spread slowly around the globe. It was not until about sixteen thousand years ago that humans first entered the American continents by crossing the land bridge to the What is now the Bering Strait into Alaska. Gradually over the following sixteen thousand years they spread slowly across north, central, and Latin America and became what we know as the Native Americans. About five hundred years ago the Europeans came across the Atlantic from Europe. Centuries The British, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch competed for control of North America among themselves and with the Native Americans, ultimately the British prevailed, the United States was established.”
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“How unsafe would it be if there was no European Union, if there was no NATO, if there was no United Nations, the dominant power of the United States would be called upon to solve every problem alone? And it would be a massive drain on our resources, military, political, economic, and other. And so we have to do the enlightened thing, which is these are all human institutions and therefore they are imperfect. They all acquire bureaucracy and bad habits. We should do all we can to streamline, improve them, to deal with the problems that they have as they come up, but not to abolish them because we and others benefit from their existence.”
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“Now, it made sense. It has helped the United States achieve political, economic, military, increasingly cultural dominance in the world. Of course it's had some cost to it, but American alliances with our allies have not been harmful to American interests overall on balance they have been beneficial to us. That's my biggest disagreement with President Trump. He says we're a piggy bank that everybody robbed. He said everybody takes advantage of us. But the fact is, it's been mutual. We have derived an enormous benefit from the creation of institutions from the European Union, from NATO, from the World Bank, from the United Nations, although many in our country revile all these institutions. If we think the world is unsafe now”
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“That's what led ultimately to the World Trade Organization. The treaty was signed in 1947 by 57 countries, but because the Senate was controlled by Republicans and they disliked President Truman, they wouldn't ratify the treaty. Forty-five years later, and nine presidents having participated in negotiations in the last legislative act of my tenure as Senator Major, the Senate ratified the creation of the World Trade Organization.”
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“A small group of American officials went to London to meet sacredly the British counterparts to begin to prepare for the massive reconstructions that they knew would be necessary when the war ended. Their central goal was to establish a World Trade Organization because they believed that trade wars had led to real wars. They believed that the protectionist reaction by the United States and other countries to the deep recession of the late 1920s had pushed the world into depression and had created the conditions that led to the rise of fascism in Europe, in particular Mussolini and Hitler. both of whom had made efforts to come to power Mussolini had achieved it, had not in the very earliest years of 1920. And so...”
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“That's why we established the World Trade Organization. With rules, procedures, and dispute resolution mechanisms to deal with all of those issues, and what the president is doing is undermining The trading system that the United States helped and led the way to create. Let me take you back in history. To the very last days of december nineteen forty two. The tide of the Second World War had just changed. Decisive Allied victories in Midway, in North Africa, and in Stalingrad in November of that year had marked the maximum expansion by the Axis powers, and so from then on their powers contracted.”
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“And it's based on a falsehood. I mean, the president cites individual cases of high tariffs in Canada and Europe. But the reality is, according to all that I've read, is that the average level of tariffs in Canada, in the EU, are about 3%. And in the United States, they're a little less than that. So there are a relatively modest level of tariffs, although there are individual cases on all sides where they're very high And there's slightly higher than ours, and it would be, I think, a reasonable thing to expect that we could get parity even at that low level. But it certainly doesn't justify the massive response that we're making now. In effect, daring them to respond in kind, which they have to do for their own domestic political reasons.”
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“I don't disagree with his premise that they're doing things they should be doing and we should be responding to them. The problem is that the response is hurting our allies more than it's hurting them and divides the West when we should be united to come up with a policy that is targeted, selective, and confronts the Chinese in the areas where we believe the abuses are occurring.”
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“We have the power to effect Chinese economic activity. ZTE was going into bankruptcy when we took the position that they couldn't be involved, American producers could not be involved with them. And incredibly enough, the president is now rescuing, trying to rescue that company, even Congressional Republicans are upset about that.”
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“But President Trump is correct when he says China is abusing the world trading system of which they are now a party. The problem is the answer that he's chosen, tariffs which are hitting our allies is the wrong response. It's as though after Pearl Harbor that we invaded Brazil. It's a misdirected response. The way to deal with intellectual property actions, abuse in China, is to affect intellectual property here and elsewhere. In other words, make a response that's specific to the problem. If they are imposing restraints on, let's say, investments by financial institutions, then we impose restraints on their financial institutions. And as we've seen in the case of the company ZTE.”
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“Yeah, because they're trying to undermine those democracies as well. In fact, the Russians are more concerned with the European democracies than they are with ours. Because we're distant from them. And they have always wanted a buffer state on their western border. They have memories of Napoleon's invasion. They have memories of Hitler's invasion. It's not a figment of their imagination, it's a reality. And so they want those buffer zones, even though the wars of the 21st century would be very different from those of the 20th century. Nonetheless, it's a human reaction. And so I think what we needed to do is respond in kind. This goes back to my argument about China and trade.”
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“That you have to take action. Now, the president did say we will take action, this is President Obama. Some of it will be public, some private. The problem is nothing appeared publicly, and we don't know what happened privately. And if you don't do something publicly, then there's no way the American people have to know that something is occurring. President Trump, by contrast, has simply denied the Russian activity, said he accepted Putin's. Words on this and continues to praise President Putin now in his latest proposal to bring Russia back in to the G7 and make it the G8 again.”
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“Well, he did go to Putin and say personally and directly to him, cut it out. In my judgment, while that was appropriate, by itself it was inadequate. And I believe that we should have responded in kind. The Russians. We certainly have the capacity to conduct such operations ourselves. And I think that you can't simply turn the other cheek in this circumstance. So why didn't we issue warnings?”
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“That we need, I think that was true of Obama, and I think that is obviously true of Trump, who makes excuses for Putin almost every day. Wants to talk with them in the light of the overwhelming information that has been publicly disclosed about how Russia sought to interfere in our elections.”
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“Despite its possession of nuclear weapons and its having been a will superpower just a few decades ago, the Russian economy is actually quite small. Less than half the size of California's economy. It doesn't even begin to approach ours. We should respect them. We should understand that they've been through a very difficult period of what many of them regard as national humiliation by the loss of superpower status. But at the same time, it's very clear that technology, again, has enabled them to conduct what is essentially Cyber warfare On the United States, on democracy, on the Western European democracies in a way that requires a vigorous response, and I don't think our government Has made a response with sufficient vigor and force.”
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“Talk about discipline. He's played it straight. He has talented, able, people working for him. We don't know what the facts are because he has not disclosed them. And so it's premature for anyone to say, well, this hasn't been proved or that hasn't been proved because we don't know. He's in the middle of an investigation. When he completes his investigation and makes his views known, then we'll be able to make a judgment. I do want to say that I believe that both President Obama and President Trump. Have not responded with sufficient vigor to the efforts by the Russian government to interfere in our democratic process and to destabilize democracies not just here but in Europe and other places as well.”
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“I also think it will be a catastrophic error for the president to refuse to honor a subpoena issued by the Mueller investigation if in fact he does not agree to testify. So I think he's got a tough decision to make sometime in the next few months. Meantime, I think Bob Mueller has demonstrated a degree of restraint. There are no leaks from his investigation. None whatsoever.”
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“Well, it has been historically the case that presidents who have been subject to independent investigations have opposed those investigations, have sought to undermine them, have sought to discredit them. And so that's what President Trump is doing. That's what President Clinton tried to do. The fact is that Robert Mueller is a Republican. He was appointed by Rod Rosenstein, who is a Republican and who was appointed to his position by President Trump. So it's a far stretch to suggest that it's a partisan witch hunt when the two principal leaders, those conducting and those supervising investigation, are themselves lifelong Republicans. I don't think they will succeed. I think it would be a catastrophic error for the president to Feyer, although that appears to be at least from time to time under consideration.”
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“And of course, it's true that the Democrats go through row reversals as well. I don't mean to suggest that this is a one-way street in American politics, but the combination of the power of electronic media, the human capacity for rationalization, our closing our minds to different points of view. Personally, I think it's unhealthy. One of the greatest things that happened to me as Senate majority leader was I had to listen. I had to listen to points of view, many of which I disagreed with because I had to respect each senator as an individual who had his or her own views. His or her own constituency. And I've said many times that the most effective way of leading is by listening. You get to know what people want and then you can act on that basis rather than acting on the basis of what you think they might want.”
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“Cuba. And they specifically mention North Korea. you go back and look at the old Fox News reports and Republican political leaders, there was an avalanche of criticism that he would think of talking to these terrible people. Well, now that Trump has done it, it's all Nobel Prize support.”
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“And political institutions, but the power of electronic media has created a situation in our politics that enables people to more fully exercise the natural rationalization that we all have and to justify policies, as I said, I'm repeating myself now, that they would not otherwise tolerate. Jimmy, just give one example of that right now. When President Obama said that he would be willing to talk to other foreign leaders, there was an avalanche of criticism.”
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“You go back and look at the votes in the House of Representatives by Mike Pence when he was in the House. Most of the top Republicans literally on a dime. The policy has been completely reversed, and now you have the most anti-free trade president in modern era strongly supported by Fox and by others in the Republican establishment, whether within the party itself or those who support it. Now, that happens on all sides in politics. I mean, I'm a Democrat, but the fact is that A long time ago Democrats were the party of slavery and the civil war divided Democrats on the subject while Republicans were created on the abolition side, the two parties have completely shifted roles on the dramatic and powerful issue of race over the past 150 years, shifted roles somewhat on trade, and so people change individuals.”
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“It's impossible to, of course, either categorically accept or eject a description like that, but it is indisputable that Fox has enormous power and that it has become a part of the Republican Party and a spokesman for the party, not just announcing the views, but actually shaping the views and changing the views. Just look at the policies of the Republican Party on the issue of trade. Nearly a century, Republicans have strongly advocated trade policies.”
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“Speak out on behalf of actions that they would never tolerate when performed by the other side. And that goes both ways, of course.”
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