Canada's Former Liberal Party Leader Offers Advice to Young Liberals | New Republic

Canada's Former Liberal Party Leader Offers Advice to Young Liberals | New Republic: I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more respect for politicians than when I went in. The worst of them—the careerists and predators—you find in all professions. The best of them were a credit to democracy. They knew the difference between an adversary and an enemy, knew when to take half a loaf and when to insist on the whole bakery, knew when to trust their own judgment and when to listen to the people.