Department Quote by George J. Mitchell

“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.”

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

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

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I enjoyed practicing law.

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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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