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George Mitchell

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“We have two capacities that are very, very important in this discussion. The first is there is almost no limit to the human capacity to rationalize. to excuse behavior by those who with whom I am associated that we would never tolerate in those on the other side. And then secondly, our minds are wired in a way that we receive well, retain and use information that is consistent with our own previous views, but we have a hard wall that keeps out information that is inconsistent with our prior beliefs. And so we tend to receive information, seek out and receive information that confirms our views, and to repel and reject information to the country. And you combine that with the immense, immense power of rationalization, and you have people in this country today who not only support, not only are silent about, but affirmatively...”
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“Thomas Jefferson was the challenger, and they were what we would think of as newspapers that were very partisan, said awful things about each candidate. But then, of course, the news were rarely read by few people. It was distant in time and place. It did not have anywhere near the scope and power of electronic media, the communication, the radio that we're now speaking over, the power of the television camera, which reaches literally everybody in this country. And as we discussed earlier, in cable news has the enormous effect of repetition that drives home a point if a politician makes a mistake now it isn't just reported and forgotten it's repeated thousands of times so it's deeply embedded in the minds and attitudes of the American people. And let me just make one other point. As humans”
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“Weather said a profound effect and the principal effect has been to benefit those whose views are espoused on Fox News. The reality is, of course, that they have been partisan news outlets throughout our nation's history. One of the roughest elections in American history was in 1800 when the two candidates were men who become icons in American history. John Adams was the incumbent.”
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“Well, I don't use those words. He pursued a policy. He was firm on it. He executed and implemented on his plan. And it succeeded from that perspective. I think 20 years down the road, when that is applied in the other direction, there may be a balancing of that view. But I think he's effective. He's intelligent. He clearly has the trust and support of the vast majority of his colleagues, particularly those party, his caucus, the Republicans in the Senate.”
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“is rapidly disseminated to the other side. So it's just a matter of time until right after the midterm elections a party says, well, we're not going to consider any more presidential nominees. If it can be one year, why can't it be two years? I think that's very destructive of the process. Harmful for the country, but I think it sure did advance the interest of the Republican Party. Do you think they?”
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“Why regard Mitch as a friend I was flattered when he was elected majority leader. He described me as the role model he intended to emulate. I think he's been very effective in behalf of his party and the principles of his party. I disagree with some of the things he's done. I strongly disagreed with his decision, which has proven to be effective from their standpoint, to not permit even a hearing or a vote on President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court one year before Obama left office. That's going to come back someday and haunt them because every weapon used in politics and war”
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“The presidency in the event of something happening, the Senate majority leader is not mentioned anywhere. It's a custom that arose when the Senate became dysfunctional long after the Senate itself began its existence. So you have the power of persuasion. You have to gain the trust and confidence of your colleagues.”
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“The majority leader no longer has Chairman and individual committee members. It's done on both sides generally by a committee of senators. He does appoint. What we call the steering committee. So it does have an indirect authority, but also there have been customs built up, including seniority, which is an absolute but is a huge factor. So you're right, he is, I would describe it as first among equals, does have some degree, but it is no way near the power, say, of the speaker of the house. The speaker of the house is mentioned in the Constitutional Office, in fact the Speaker of the House is third in line.”
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“property rights. We should be addressing those directly with the support of RLIs in a way that deals with the problem. If you've got an intellectual property rights problem, you address that directly. A broadly tariff-based tariff increase-based approach is exactly the wrong approach. So we're using the wrong weapon to fight the Chinese in their way they're abusing the system. And we are at the same time severing our ties with our allies who should be supporting us in the effort. The Europeans cannot understand what it is that we're doing because it is ultimately so contrary to our own interests.”
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“Well, the greatest gift that the Chinese government could receive was given by President Trump when he took office and withdrew from the Trans Pacific. trade partnership. These were 10 Pacific facing nations who wanted to establish their primary economic relationship with the United States. They did not want China to be dominating them in economic or other affairs. And we spurned that effort. We in effect withdrew. So what did they do? Well, they're now turning to an agreement that will include China. We effectively walked out the door and left it open for the Chinese to dominate. And that was a profound error. Now, the fact is the Chinese have abused and misused international trade mechanisms. They don't enforce intellectual property rights. They impose restrictions on foreign investment. There is a great deal of theft of in an”
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“We don't have to attack Canada in order to do a deal with North Korea. We don't have to seek the dissolution of the European Union in order to deal with China or Russia more effectively. In fact, the opposite is true. We should be strengthening our alliance with our friends to help us in dealing with our historic adversaries. And as I put it, we should be combining with Europe to deal with the real abuses by China in the system of world trade. Instead, it is we who are isolated and China and others who are allied against us. It's an ironic turn in the wheel of history that I think will ultimately redound not well for the United States.”
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“We, the United States, led the creation of a world order to promote trade, stability, peace, and prosperity, and it included the European Union, NATO, institutions to help people, all of them achieve democracy and freedom and prosperity, and largely it has worked. It's imperfect as are all human beings in all institutions. But what the president is doing is in effect tearing down that system and trying to replace it with a series of ad hoc alliances with Russia, with China, and with North Korea. There's no reason why the two have to be mutually exclusive.”
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“That's to say, that's a complete misreading of history also. Let me go back. In the 75 years before 1945, Europe was devastated by three major land wars. In the last two the United States intervened decisively. In the aftermath of that terrible conflict in which sixty three million people died in a world in which the population was less than half of what it is now.”
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“Trade wars and tariffs being imposed on our allies like Canada and the European Union, and so you've got this hugely ironic situation where the president is praising Putin and Kim Jong-un and blasting Canada's prime minister and the Europeans who are our historic allies.”
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“And he did, yes, yes, as a young man just in this same building. A different floor. So at that point, I realized. Popular vote by about 3 million, but under our system, he won fairly and in a democratic way. My disagreements with the president focus on policy. There's been a lot of talk about his personal characteristics, and everybody citizen is able to make up his or her own mind in that respect. I think the public debate ought to focus on policy, and my disagreements with them are in the area of policy. Most recently in the so-called tariff wars and trade wars.”
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“I had a feeling it was coming, and in fact I appeared on Bloomberg television that evening, and just before I went on the young man who worked for Bloomberg doing the tabulating and the interpreting of the votes came up to me and said Trump is going to win.”
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“I believe in it, but it doesn't have political support in our country. When I was Senate Majority Leader, we passed in the Congress for the last time a major comprehensive campaign finance law. We couldn't get the votes to include public financing. It did a lot of other good things, but unfortunately President Bush vetoed the bill and we couldn't override the veto.”
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“Money is money and speech is speech, and every sixth grade student in America knows they're not identical. And the second point is that we ought to have the right in our country the people through their elected representatives to impose reasonable restraints on contributions to political campaigns and expenditures by political campaigns. This Supreme Court has effectively prohibited that. And that's what we need is a change that says yes, American people can. They do have the right to control the amounts of money going into campaigns and to control the manner in which that money is spent in political campaigns. Until that happens, I don't think we're going to see any change in the dysfunction. I think, in fact, it will get worse.”
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“Has opened the floodgates to money pouring into our system at precisely the time that in a series of unrelated actions, transparency has decreased almost to the point of vanishing. So you have this double whammy, billions and billions of dollars being poured into the political process, less and less openness for the people to know who's giving what to whom.”
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“That's exactly right. There was some It's a big issue now for the Supreme Court. The second is money. We are drowning in money. I travel all over this country and for 10 years I have asked every audience. Do you believe that our members of Congress are more responsive to their constituents than they are to their donors? In ten years before tens of thousands of people only two or three people have raised their hands That's the corruption of American politics, the trust of the public in their elected officials has been severed and you cannot have an effectively functioned democracy if the people do not trust those who they have elected and a big reason for that is money. The Supreme Court in a series of decisions, the best known one being Citizens United.”
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“In state after state, big states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Republican candidates for the House of Representatives in the most recent years, after the last redistricting, received a minority of the vote and got a huge majority of the seats. Underway now is an effort in sixteen states led by California and Iowa to depoliticize, to reduce the politicization of the process of rewriting, revising congressional districts to make them more compact, more logical, more competitive. I think that's a huge factor and that will go a long way toward reducing the dysfunction.”
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“There are many factors I'm not an historian or a sociologist. I'll make two comments, two suggestions that I think, if adopted, would help improve the situation we're in. The first is gerrymandering, the manipulation of congressional district lines each 10 years after the census. It's been going on since the country was founded, but technology has advanced so rapidly, and as you know, technology is neutral. It can be used for good purposes, it can be used for bad purposes. In the case of gerrymandering, it's been used in an extreme way that has resulted in what you might call minority representation.”
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“It's unfortunate. The word dysfunctional is widely used. And I think that it does not reflect well on our country or on our democracy or on our political process.”
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“They had to compete with players who were cheating and their livelihoods were endangered. They rejected at a time, but I'm very pleased to tell you that after I issued my report, there began to be a change in attitude and right now to their great credit the players strongly support vigorous enforcement, a comprehensive program, and major league baseball to the eternal credit of the then Commissioner Bud Sealig. who started this process and to the players who've now come around to this view, Major League Baseball has the toughest, most effective drug testing, drug prevention program in professional sports in the United States.”
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“That was Frank Thomas. who was then with the White Sox a great player who made the Hall of Fame and I met with him. It was on the condition that he wasn't going to disclose any names and he didn't, but he confirmed the fact that there was widespread use of steroids. He resented the fact that he had achieved historic successes putting him in the Hall of Fame in a clean way. but he had to compete with players who cheated. Using drugs. And I made the argument to the players, which they rejected at the time, but later accepted, that the principal victims of what was going on were the majority of players who didn't cheat.”
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“That was a very difficult undertaking because I had no power to compel anyone to talk with me or to produce documents. Everything is voluntary, and the Major League Baseball Players Association made the decision to oppose the investigation and to refuse to cooperate in any way. Of the twelve hundred major league players, only one voluntarily agreed to talk to me in response to my request. I sent a letter to every single one of the 1,200 players. and only one responded”
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“Who was the founder and long-term CEO of Federal Express? Fred is a terrific guy. Would have succeeded in any walk of life that he chose. There were great leaders in other companies as well that I served on, from whom I learned a lot”
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“While serving as Senate majority leaders are very tough job, you don't have any real specific power, only the opportunity to try to persuade people to do things that they should be doing without being asked. But you do acquire some degree of patience, some degree of insight into how to bring people together. And so it was very helpful to me, not only in my role as a corporate director, as chairman of a board, but also in my work in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and elsewhere. I want to say that for me service on the boards that you described was really an enjoyable educational experience I met and worked with some really great leaders. I'd mentioned Michael Eisner who did a great job for twenty years with Disney, Bob Eiger, who succeeded him as done a great job during his tenure.”
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“He was a valuable and contributing member of the board, very outspoken, very direct in his comments. I found him to be helpful to the board's deliberations and proceedings, although, as I said, we overlap for a relatively short period of time.”
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“The decision was made by Bob Eiger shortly after he took office. In discussions with Steve Jobs, and Steve then joined our board, and so we overlapped on the board for a relatively short time, and then I retired. It was a good acquisition. Interestingly, that occurred right at the end of my tenure. Right at the very beginning of my tenure, we had made a large acquisition of ABC. Which included ESPN. That also was criticized for overpaying, but it turned out very well. So we had at the beginning and at the end acquisitions that pay it off very well. In between, we had a third one, which wasn't so good. That was purchasing what was then the power rangers.”
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“some to succeed them. After giving it careful consideration with my wife I was of course flattered and honored by the offer I decided not to accept it because my goal was to get back into the practice of law with which I was more familiar and I wanted to continue living in the east. I told Michael and about a month later he called me and said we know you've turned us down on the other position but we have a vacancy on the board of directors would you be interested in joining the board and I was. Very much interested. I like Michael. I liked the company. It was interesting and exciting for me. And so I served on that board for about 12 years, the last four of which I was the chairman of the board.”
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“A great man named Frank Wells had held that position. He had died tragically in a helicopter crash. And they were looking.”
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“Just before I left the Senate, I was contacted by Michael Eisner, who was then the CEO and chairman of the Walt Disney Company, asked to meet with him and members of the board, and they offered me the position of president of the company, that is second in line to CEO, Mr. Eisner. After CEO.”
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“Now that is shifted from a condition of getting into the meeting to a goal of the meeting. That's a significant concession. And the third is, of course, an end to the joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, which has been a long-standing objective of North Korea. Now, if it turns out that we do get full and verifiable and irreversible denuclearization, it will have been worth the price. But we don't know that yet. And so until now, the concessions have gone one way, and we'll have to see what the negotiations produce. All of us must hope and pray that it will succeed, and the policy as we expect it will take place. But that remains to be seen, and it's going to be a long, difficult road.”
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“We've made three significant concessions already to the North Koreans. The first is the meeting itself. Every North Korean leader wanted a meeting with the American president because that, of course, places them at the center of the international stage. The second is that we have changed our policy dramatically until just recently the American policy under President Trump and his predecessors was that North Korea had to commit to denuclearization as a condition to getting into a meeting.”
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“Kim Jong-un has said it is a process that will take a long time and that it should be phased out over a long period of time. I think that the president's words in this respect are somewhat overoptimistic. I think it is going to take time. But the question is how much time and how will it be verified? How can we know for certain they're doing what they say they're doing? Keep in mind that no North Korean, not Kim Jong or any other, has ever used the words verifiable. and irreversible.”
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“Indeed, it was not a new statement, it referred simply to the statement made months ago in April by Kim Jong Un that they would agree to denuclearization so as of now the two parties have different interpretations of what does denuclearization mean. That must be negotiated out and hopefully the administration will insist on the American definition being accepted. The second major point to be negotiated is the pace of change. The president has said it's going to happen variously. He's used the words immediately right away, fast, quickly.”
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“We must all hope and pray that it succeeds, because that is one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the world But let's keep in mind that the United States position, as enunciated repeatedly by Secretary State Pompeo, including as recently as a day ago, is that there must be complete verifiable irreversible denuclearization. The statement issued today by the President and Kim Jong Un omitted the words verifiable and irreversible.”
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“I think that's not likely at the time. It appears that the UK is going to move some form of change in its status within the European Union. I hope that both the leaders of the UK and the leaders of the European Union will negotiate in good faith to minimize the adverse impact both economically and politically a strong European Union, in my judgment, has been a major contributor to peace, stability, and prosperity, not just in Europe but around the world.”
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“Hard or soft, will they remain in a custom union? Will it be a complete break? All those are now being decided, literally as we speak in the British Parliament and elsewhere. But I think it is an important matter for all the people of Ireland, north and south and all of the UK as well. I hope very much that the Prime Minister of the UK takes the position that they will accept what people refer to as a soft Brexit, not completely sever their relations with the European Union. And that's very much in the United States interest as well.”
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“The Brexit vote taken by the people of the United Kingdom was democratically taken and therefore must be respected. But I believe personally that it will prove to be an historic mistake for the people of the United Kingdom themselves and also, and in particular the people of Ireland. Not just Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom, along with England, Scotland, and Wales, but the Republic of Ireland, which the economy of which is deeply integrated into that of the United Kingdom. Keep in mind, Ireland has five million people. The United Kingdom has 65 million people. The United Kingdom is a large, powerful nation. Ireland is heavily dependent on the economic integration with the UK, and so the people of Ireland risk being those most hurt by the UK decision to leave the European Union. Now, how much Brexit will be?”
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“In the end, to their great creditor, the political ease of Northern Ireland, who had spent their lives in conflict, took a great risk, personal, physical risk, political risk, by entering into an agreement, which I'm pleased to say today, this year marks the twentieth anniversary of it, and the peace is held. They remain divided. There are great differences of opinion. The government is not now functioning because of internal disagreement, but the violence has largely ended, and to me that's a significant accomplishment.”
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“Over a five year span I chaired three separate sets of discussions, the main negotiation lasted about two years. Interestingly, there were ten political parties in Northern Ireland and the two governments, so there were 12 parties in all to the negotiation. Not once ever was I able to get all 12 into the same room at the same time. Somebody had walked out, somebody had been evicted, somebody didn't like something that day, so we never got everybody together. As a result of which, I did a lot of what I would call moving negotiation. I would go to their offices individually and see them one group at a time. I would have meetings with two of them or six of them. Once in a while, we had most of them there, but it was very difficult because of the long-standing hostility.”
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“It's had a dramatic effect really like the rest of life in general. You can't think of politics as something separate from the rest of our lives because it's affected by the same influences that work, our family, all of our lives are. And as we've seen, the dramatic changes in human life brought about through the technological advancements of recent years, the creation of social media, the beginning of cable news services, the increasing polarization of the media itself, which both influences and is influenced by those attitudes in public. So serving in public office now is much different than it was when I was there, running for public office.”
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“Well, there is, if you do well, and we were very fortunate in that era, although President Reagan was then in his second term really at the peak of his popularity in the election of 1986, we gained 11 seats and went from being the minority party to the majority party.”
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“I was very fortunate. I was named the chairman of the Democratic Senate campaign committee. For the 1986 elections. That's a position that each party has. You help candidates running for office.”
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“No, that's right. Well, it was my opponent who challenged me to the debates, and as the incumbent I accepted them, and gradually over time I I think I became better known and the tide slowly changed in my favor I ended up winning by a comfortable margin 61% of the vote.”
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“It was a combination of factors first the primary challenge never materialized, so I ended up getting the nomination without a contest. And then it was a head-to-head race for over a year. We had a lot of... appearances together we had six televised debates and graduates six debates that's amazing we barely”
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“etched in my memory is may nineteen eighty one Lovri before the election when Headline news in a large daily newspaper was that I was trailing my opponent by thirty six percentage points in the general election and at that time I was threatened with a primary election and I was behind in that race by 25 percentage point. Okay.”
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“That's right. I was appointed a federal judge when the Congress enacted legislation to increase the number of federal judges in Maine that we had had since the state's creation in 1820 only one federal judge. And that was double to two, and I became the second federal judge, only the 12th in the whole history of the state.”
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