I never write comments but after watching this interview I had to express my deep admiration to Senator Mitchell. What a brilliant, generous human being. A role model for all of us today !
This man is a beacon of integrity and humanity. His life is a shining example for the world. Good wishes for your continued happiness and a happy 92nd birthday in August!Thank you, guys, for the interview, so professional and genial.
I’m 66. I studied politics at Sydney Uni including a semester on US politics. I learned more about it in the first half hour listening to George M. Thanks. The best interview in years.
Thank you Rory and Alistair for continuing to bring us extraordinary and fascinating people that most of us would otherwise never have the privilege of 'meeting'. You both always interview these people with nothing but interest and respect, opening up thoughts and stories we may not hear otherwise. Well done. Thank you from Australia
I am grateful to George Mitchell and The Rest is Politics for this presentation. Astoundingly, Mr. Mitchell remains as crystal clear as ever and a refreshingly humane person. Many thanks!
Alistair & Rory - you have the best podcast. You are sincere & ask questions that get to the heart of the matter. Important guests. Senator Mitchell is still so impressive at 91. Steel trap mind. Open heart. Thank you.
I grew up in the Rep. of Ireland on the border with Fermanagh - not far from Omagh. I lived through numerous bombscares. As part of our daily life we had to manoeuvre our family car around concrete barricades daily to get to the local shops. We had to avoid roads which were previously blown up. Helicopters, armoured cars, army checkpoints were the norm. I came of age the year of the peace process in 1999. I will never forget the moment the newsflash came on the TV to announce the peace process. My father and I couldn’t believe it!!! I went to Queens University a few months later in Sept 1999. I owe so much gratitude to this man for opening up my future at the age of 18. I still live in a peaceful Northern Ireland, with my husband and 3 kids and we love it here. Thank you Senator Mitchell - for everything ❤
Not that I want to sound sarcastic but it always amazes me the invocation of “god”! In this day and age and there are still people holding superstitious beliefs!
Took the words out of my mouth (or 'off my fingers'?). What an incredible man. Such humility and competence. And a better memory at 91 than I have at 31 🥲
What an outstanding interview with Senator Mitchell! He is clearly a man with a lot of empathy and driven by moral values. What a great mind and eloquence he still has at his age!!!! We need more men like him in this world to make a difference. ❤
The guy knows his country’s history and what a brilliant video I too could listen to him all day the knowledge, understanding and judgement he brings is amazing. And he comes across as a strong and decent man.
If only everyone in public life was so dignified and respectful. Shed a few tears listening to his stories about his family and the Omagh bombing survivors. Great episode!
A remarkable man from wonderful parents. May George Mitchell live on for many more years. Thank you George for your remarkable contribution to Irish peace process. A brilliant listen.
Thank you Senator George Mitchell and Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart for this incredibly moving interview. Senator George Mitchell’s compassion and capacity to truly listen and mediate in conflict resolution and depth of historical perspective has given me hope today. What a wonderful man. Thank you so much for all your work in bringing about peace. Thank you so much Rory and Alistair for your brilliant insightful videos and podcasts. You are becoming my companions in my political deepening and hope in our very geopolitically challenging yet beautiful world. 🙏🏻💙🕊️
Thank you so much for your brilliant interview with Senator Mitchell! I'm only 58 yrs old and feeling every day of it, but if I could be as intelligent and eloquent at his age I would be so grateful. I had the honor and privilege as a freelance journalist and human rights activist of meeting with and covering the Good Friday Agreement back in 98 and as a betting man never thought that it would actually work this long compared to the ongoing Middle East crisis and our inability to deal with and reconcile our legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in my own country. Statesman of his caliber are so bloody lacking in our own time in both America and the UK. I'm planning on voting for Harris in my voting booth in Pittsburgh,PA and God help us how it turns out come this Tuesday.
Outstanding interview! An amazing, brilliant, generous, gentle, committed man. A great life story full of great achievements. Thank you, Rory and Alistair and George.
A very interesting listen. Thank you both, and thank you Mr. Mitchell, it was good of you to share your thoughts, hopefully you can continue to share them for a long while yet.
Listening to this great - and hasten to add, spiritually healing - interview of yours from another epicenter of perpetual and pervasive conflict and chaos and human suffering in the world, Horn of Africa. And I just want to leave the following words here: what a pleasure to listen to such a blessed man! An unassuming and simple man, yet a wholesome personality that effuses a depth of wisdom that I can only associate with the incorporeal entity of angels. May he continue to persevere against his cancer and live on to happily enjoy his remaining life on earth!
Thank you so much for bringing the work of George Mitchell into focus. He is a truly wise and decent man, and his insight about negotiation in ‘intractable’ conflict is something we need to preserve. It took 5 years of listening and building relationships. For generations we in the US keep hoping that some magic president or negotiator will swoop in to the Middle East and fix things, but it will probably take decades of continual listening and building trust instead of the fitful efforts (a few days at Camp David, etc) that we’ve mustered so far.
I just listened to a giant of the world. Thank you so much for having George Mitchell on your podcast. Were it not for his age, there is a man who has the capacity to heal the wounds of the Middle East. I will also never forget the name Claire Gallagher. What a desperately profound story that was. Boy of boy. I am moved. Thank you.
One of your best interviews boys, what a remarkable man, highlighting a very wonderful man, in a time when we need reminding that there are very, very good people!
What a powerful lesson on the importance of truly listening to people. This has been such an educational interview, with a wise, humble and beautifully grounded human being. It has given me perspective and hope for the future. Thank you so much for this interview!
Thank you so much for this interview. Absolutely fascinating person and stories. While I disagree with almost EVERYTHING AC says and 80% of RS, this is exactly why I listen to every pod. It's important to me, to have my positions challenged, but then every now and again you get a pod like this. Here AC & I are aligned.... Could listen to him speak for hours.... TY TRIP team for this content.
Great interview! Thank you. I agree with you Alastair, I could listen to George Mitchel all day long. So much humanity, depth, experience, wisdom, and humour. I wish him long years of healthy life! Thank you for this episode.
Being born in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, I count myself lucky to have never experienced political violence. I cannot thank your guest enough for his work here.
Hi, what a delightful guest. At 91 he is amazing. And such a gentle and genuine smile. A shame the World doesn't have more of his type.. Thank you. Valerie Farrington.
The power of deep listening and coming to something without prejudice. Quite extraordinary. So uplifting in his desire to be constantly learning. Thank you all involved for sharing this.
What a wonderful and heartwarming interview, Senator Mitchell is a true gentleman, if I could be one tenth of the man he is,I would die a happy man 🏴👍😉
What a remarkable man. What a clear and well-ordered mind. Which begs the question that the notion that an ageing mind is necessarily a deteriorating mind.
I am listening in from Nairobi Kenya. I have actually been making an effort to do a postgraduate programme in Pharmaceutical Analysis at Queen's University and that is what captured my attention. I am from the Luo community who live around Lake Victoria. I am so moved by the man Senator George Mitchell is. His integrity, compassion and commitment are inspiring. I wish more politicians especially in Africa were more like him. So glad I came across this interview. Thank you Rory and Alastair
I am gobsmacked ! The depth of knowledge/understanding and geopolitical literacy demonstrated by this 90 plus year old gentleman compared to the dim-witted, frivolous, vulgar, grotesque conman and elected president of the US named Trump is just mind-blowing.
What a wonderful and inspired oh-so-special guest! Wonderful to see Sen Mitchell so eruditely weaving historical experience into a richer & warmer perspective of our ‘now’. Thank you both very very much!
I was in tears many times during your conversation with Senator Mitchell especially when he recounted his experience in the Northern Ireland negotiations, and his memories and gratitude for his parents and family. The world needs more folks like George Mitchell. I Hope Alastair and Rory will have him back after his 92nd birthday.
What an incredible man is Senator Mitchell. Today's politicians need lessons from him. There should be a Senator George Mitchell school. His mother sounds like my experience of Lebanese people, kindness.
Absolutely fantastic episode gents! I was transfixed from minute one to the very end. Like Alastair, I could listen to Senator Mitchell all day. He is a true giant of the political system and its sad we don't see more like him.
Another outstanding interview. Sen. Mitchell is thoughtful, eloquent, deep and light. Uplifting. Thank you, Rory and Alastair.
I never write comments but after watching this interview I had to express my deep admiration to Senator Mitchell. What a brilliant, generous human being. A role model for all of us today !
I never usually leave comments but have to say this is the best Leading interview! What a fascinating man!
This man is a beacon of integrity and humanity. His life is a shining example for the world. Good wishes for your continued happiness and a happy 92nd birthday in August!Thank you, guys, for the interview, so professional and genial.
I’m 66. I studied politics at Sydney Uni including a semester on US politics. I learned more about it in the first half hour listening to George M.
Thanks. The best interview in years.
What a wonderfully wise human being. Thank you Rory and Alastair for introducing us to him.
Thank you Rory and Alistair for continuing to bring us extraordinary and fascinating people that most of us would otherwise never have the privilege of 'meeting'. You both always interview these people with nothing but interest and respect, opening up thoughts and stories we may not hear otherwise. Well done. Thank you from Australia
What a great and delightful man! Thanks for giving us a chance to hear his experience and his wisdom. 91 years old! OMG! Live on!
Blessed are the peacemakers. A truly inspirational and moving interview. Thank you.
Amen.
What an honourable man. His words bring hope to the world.
What an incredible man. Warmth, compassion and a remarkable mind, a privelage to listen to.
Senator Mitchell is a hero of mine. His efforts to negotiate peace in Ireland are legendary. He's a good guy.
What an incredible interview, clearly George Mitchell is a man filled with wisdom and compassion.
Its so important for us to listen to older Americans. Such history! And, he is SO SHARP!!👍👍Thank you!!
Great interview with a wonderful American and true patriot and human being. Thank you Sen Mitchell🙏🇺🇸
I am grateful to George Mitchell and The Rest is Politics for this presentation. Astoundingly, Mr. Mitchell remains as crystal clear as ever and a refreshingly humane person. Many thanks!
I rarely comment, but my god what an insightful conversation! As Alastair said I too could listen to countless hours of this man.
Excellent interview what an incredibly intelligent, genuine, tuned in and humble man. Thanks for this
Thank you George Mitchell and America for your amazing contribution to peace in Ireland. What a great interview!
Alistair & Rory - you have the best podcast. You are sincere & ask questions that get to the heart of the matter. Important guests. Senator Mitchell is still so impressive at 91. Steel trap mind. Open heart. Thank you.
We need more George’s in this world.
Beyond words, his wisdom... Brought me to tears. Thank you Alistair and Rory. 🙏🏼💕
I grew up in the Rep. of Ireland on the border with Fermanagh - not far from Omagh. I lived through numerous bombscares. As part of our daily life we had to manoeuvre our family car around concrete barricades daily to get to the local shops. We had to avoid roads which were previously blown up. Helicopters, armoured cars, army checkpoints were the norm. I came of age the year of the peace process in 1999. I will never forget the moment the newsflash came on the TV to announce the peace process. My father and I couldn’t believe it!!! I went to Queens University a few months later in Sept 1999. I owe so much gratitude to this man for opening up my future at the age of 18. I still live in a peaceful Northern Ireland, with my husband and 3 kids and we love it here. Thank you Senator Mitchell - for everything ❤
Wow! Thank you for this comment. I had no idea that an American helped turn your country around a bit.
Thank you for giving us this talk with one of our greatest American Statesmen. May we please dear God have more leaders of his caliber
Not that I want to sound sarcastic but it always amazes me the invocation of “god”! In this day and age and there are still people holding superstitious beliefs!
Wonderful, wonderful interview. Senator Mitchell restores my faith in politics and politicians. Thank you.
Took the words out of my mouth (or 'off my fingers'?). What an incredible man. Such humility and competence. And a better memory at 91 than I have at 31 🥲
What an outstanding interview with Senator Mitchell! He is clearly a man with a lot of empathy and driven by moral values. What a great mind and eloquence he still has at his age!!!! We need more men like him in this world to make a difference. ❤
The guy knows his country’s history and what a brilliant video I too could listen to him all day the knowledge, understanding and judgement he brings is amazing. And he comes across as a strong and decent man.
What an intelligent guest, thank you guys for inviting him, absolutely facilitating
If only everyone in public life was so dignified and respectful. Shed a few tears listening to his stories about his family and the Omagh bombing survivors. Great episode!
A remarkable man from wonderful parents. May George Mitchell live on for many more years. Thank you George for your remarkable contribution to Irish peace process. A brilliant listen.
George Mitchell - wonderful. Calm, thoughtful, generous, intelligent. Very sharp for 91 years.
What a treat you have served for us Alistair and Rory. A fascinating podcast. Thank you Senator Mitchell.
Thank-you, what an amazing interview, what an remarkable man George Mitchell is.
Having lived through the conflict and left Ireland I cried with gratitude for this wonderful man. Bless you all and thank you 🙏🥰
WOW! What an incredible session this was. I am so grateful to this channel and to Rory and Alastair. Thank you!
I saved this podcast in my library to return to for education, encouragement, and perspective. Thank you for this amazing interview.
What joy. Thank you. Thank you Senator Mitchell.
What a remarkable interview of a fascinating, intelligent and profoundly wise human being. Thank you and well done.
Uplifting, I hung on every word George said. As an Irishman thank you Rory, Alistair. Excellent interview. Wishing George many more years.
Just brilliant. I hope that his vision of a civil senate comes to pass.
Amazing discussion. The US could really use a few more George Mitchells right now.
Thank you Senator George Mitchell and Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart for this incredibly moving interview. Senator George Mitchell’s compassion and capacity to truly listen and mediate in conflict resolution and depth of historical perspective has given me hope today.
What a wonderful man.
Thank you so much for all your work in bringing about peace. Thank you so much Rory and Alistair for your brilliant insightful videos and podcasts. You are becoming my companions in my political deepening and hope in our very geopolitically challenging yet beautiful world. 🙏🏻💙🕊️
Thanks Rory, Alastair, and George for a fantastic interview.
Thank you so much for your brilliant interview with Senator Mitchell! I'm only 58 yrs old and feeling every day of it, but if I could be as intelligent and eloquent at his age I would be so grateful. I had the honor and privilege as a freelance journalist and human rights activist of meeting with and covering the Good Friday Agreement back in 98 and as a betting man never thought that it would actually work this long compared to the ongoing Middle East crisis and our inability to deal with and reconcile our legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in my own country. Statesman of his caliber are so bloody lacking in our own time in both America and the UK. I'm planning on voting for Harris in my voting booth in Pittsburgh,PA and God help us how it turns out come this Tuesday.
Very well said and I agree with your sentiment. We urgently need more Senator Mitchells in the US and Europe.
Fellow Pittsburgher here. We must resist and not obey the fascist MAGA regime! Give us liberty or give us death!
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This is a wonderful example for many of today's politicians. John 🌻
Wonderful interview. Thank you both!
What a wonderful man and what a debt of honour we owe him as a UK citizen
Outstanding interview! An amazing, brilliant, generous, gentle, committed man. A great life story full of great achievements. Thank you, Rory and Alistair and George.
FANTASTIC show, Gentlemen. Thank you! 🎉❤😊 In praise of Wise Men of Good Will.
What a fantastic, interesting and fascinating guy to listen to. I could listen to his stories all day! Thanks for bringing him to the podcast!
A very interesting listen. Thank you both, and thank you Mr. Mitchell, it was good of you to share your thoughts, hopefully you can continue to share them for a long while yet.
Listening to this great - and hasten to add, spiritually healing - interview of yours from another epicenter of perpetual and pervasive conflict and chaos and human suffering in the world, Horn of Africa. And I just want to leave the following words here: what a pleasure to listen to such a blessed man! An unassuming and simple man, yet a wholesome personality that effuses a depth of wisdom that I can only associate with the incorporeal entity of angels. May he continue to persevere against his cancer and live on to happily enjoy his remaining life on earth!
That was a great conversation, one of the best you've ever done.
Whowwwww. . . What an interview. Really powerful and enlightening about resolving conflicts and what it actually takes to achieve any settlement. 👏👏👏👏
Thank you so much for bringing the work of George Mitchell into focus. He is a truly wise and decent man, and his insight about negotiation in ‘intractable’ conflict is something we need to preserve. It took 5 years of listening and building relationships. For generations we in the US keep hoping that some magic president or negotiator will swoop in to the Middle East and fix things, but it will probably take decades of continual listening and building trust instead of the fitful efforts (a few days at Camp David, etc) that we’ve mustered so far.
Wonderful! Loved this episode. What a woman his mother was!!
Fabulous episode and what a hard working, contributing, compassionate man in George Mitchell. just wonderful to discover him. thank you
I just listened to a giant of the world. Thank you so much for having George Mitchell on your podcast. Were it not for his age, there is a man who has the capacity to heal the wounds of the Middle East. I will also never forget the name Claire Gallagher. What a desperately profound story that was. Boy of boy. I am moved. Thank you.
When you listen to this man it gives you hope for the future. Thank you Rory and Alistair for this interview.
One of your best interviews boys, what a remarkable man, highlighting a very wonderful man, in a time when we need reminding that there are very, very good people!
As Alastair said, I could listen to George all day long
Fantastic interview with a true statesman. Really throws into sharp contrast the standard of US politics today.
What a splendid old chap
What a great man .Mr Mitchell will go to his maker knowing that he did great work for Ireland 🇮🇪 and Britain 🇬🇧
That was the most wonderful and absorbing cast to date.
Absolutely brilliant episode. So inspiring. Thank you so much for such an amazing interview.
Amazing person .
What a powerful lesson on the importance of truly listening to people. This has been such an educational interview, with a wise, humble and beautifully grounded human being. It has given me perspective and hope for the future.
Thank you so much for this interview!
Great interview, Senator Mitchell is a good man.
Thank you so much for this interview. Absolutely fascinating person and stories. While I disagree with almost EVERYTHING AC says and 80% of RS, this is exactly why I listen to every pod. It's important to me, to have my positions challenged, but then every now and again you get a pod like this. Here AC & I are aligned.... Could listen to him speak for hours.... TY TRIP team for this content.
A Good Guy - Thank you
Great talk. Inspiring guy.
I hope I'm half as sharp as George Mitchell if I make it to his age. What an astonishing and historical figure. Amazing interview.
I would like to be that sharp now, at 50
agreed
Great interview! Thank you. I agree with you Alastair, I could listen to George Mitchel all day long. So much humanity, depth, experience, wisdom, and humour. I wish him long years of healthy life! Thank you for this episode.
Being born in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, I count myself lucky to have never experienced political violence. I cannot thank your guest enough for his work here.
Really Enjoyed that, another great episode, what a great man, and what a life he's had.
Incredible man.
Hi, what a delightful guest. At 91 he is amazing. And such a gentle and genuine smile.
A shame the World doesn't have more of his type.. Thank you. Valerie Farrington.
What a lovely bloke
This is a master thesis on negotiation.
What an amazing, wise, inspirational human being. Thank you for this interview.
The Best interview I’ve watched, it gives one hope that everything has a solution eventually! Let’s hope so! Such a clear thinking special guy!
Such a refreshing interview
The power of deep listening and coming to something without prejudice. Quite extraordinary. So uplifting in his desire to be constantly learning. Thank you all involved for sharing this.
What a wonderful and heartwarming interview, Senator Mitchell is a true gentleman, if I could be one tenth of the man he is,I would die a happy man 🏴👍😉
like you Alastair, I could listen to Senator Mitchel for hours. thank for a great interview.
No wonder George Mitchell turned out to be a good, interesting and informative man with the Mother he was lucky to have had❤
His father was the key
What a remarkable man. What a clear and well-ordered mind. Which begs the question that the notion that an ageing mind is necessarily a deteriorating mind.
What a fantastic guy!
What a very very impressive man. I could listen to his views all day.
I am listening in from Nairobi Kenya. I have actually been making an effort to do a postgraduate programme in Pharmaceutical Analysis at Queen's University and that is what captured my attention. I am from the Luo community who live around Lake Victoria. I am so moved by the man Senator George Mitchell is. His integrity, compassion and commitment are inspiring. I wish more politicians especially in Africa were more like him. So glad I came across this interview. Thank you Rory and Alastair
I am gobsmacked !
The depth of knowledge/understanding and geopolitical literacy demonstrated by this 90 plus year old gentleman compared to the dim-witted, frivolous, vulgar, grotesque conman and elected president of the US named Trump is just mind-blowing.
The rarest of men Thanks for the conversation.Bravo!
What a wonderful and inspired oh-so-special guest! Wonderful to see Sen Mitchell so eruditely weaving historical experience into a richer & warmer perspective of our ‘now’. Thank you both very very much!
I was in tears many times during your conversation with Senator Mitchell especially when he recounted his experience in the Northern Ireland negotiations, and his memories and gratitude for his parents and family. The world needs more folks like George Mitchell. I Hope Alastair and Rory will have him back after his 92nd birthday.
Wow what a maverlous man Senator Mitchell - thank you for this excellent interview!
What an incredible man is Senator Mitchell. Today's politicians need lessons from him. There should be a Senator George Mitchell school. His mother sounds like my experience of Lebanese people, kindness.
Just remarkable to think today that he was a politician. We all must find a way to bring back politicians like Senator Mitchell.
What a great man.. A gent through and through .
Absolutely fantastic episode gents! I was transfixed from minute one to the very end. Like Alastair, I could listen to Senator Mitchell all day. He is a true giant of the political system and its sad we don't see more like him.