International Law

The really sad part is, public life needs people like you.  It needs people who have succeeded out in the real world.  Politics is ever-more dominated by politicians pressed from the same mould, cloned and programmed and sent up the career ladder from Young Labor/Liberal ranks, into ministerial offices as advisers, then via preselection into Parliament, all clutching their talking points and trying to suppress any evidence of difference or natural human variability.  They undoubtedly arrive in politics with more political skills than you managed to acquire in six years in the game, but very few of them have a capacity to think beyond politics, to work out how creatively to respond to major, complex policy challenges.

via blogs.crikey.com.au

I couldn't agree more.