When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.