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25: Michael Ignatieff: Fighting Orban's Global Conservative Cabal
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The Importance of Being a Politician
I found message discipline very, very difficult. It made me over cautious. I'm a pretty vain guy. And I thought I would like being famous. But it began to exact a higher and higher price. One of the reasons I get uncomfortable with people praising me or coming up to me is partly to do, not with humility, but vanity. As an academic, you're having to think aloud. They want to hear your conclusions. People don't want to hear that in politics. What they want to hear is leadership. Either you have to know what you think, which is usually the wrong thing to do - or just stick with it. So this conflict between these two part at all
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