I do not intend to resign from the Red Sox. I don't believe there's any reason for me to do so. If, in any way, anyone associated with the Red Sox is implicated, they will be treated just like everyone else.

It's a place where the Administration can send someone who needs an appointment but who, for whatever reason, would be too embarrassing to give an ambassadorship.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.