Reply #14: She is a terrible speaker. George Mitchell loves to tell a story about Muskie. [View All]

[TexasObserver]

Back in the day, Mitchell was a young guy working in the Ed Muskie campaign. He said it was great to hear that stump speech, but every time Muskie gave it, he went longer and repeated himself more.

He finally gutted it up and told Ed he thought he ought to cut back on the stump speech, keep it in a time limit. "Son," Muskie told him, "when you become a politician you'll find that nothing is quite as enchanting as the sound of your own voice!"