Re: Is the American political system broken?

Description: It’s not clear you can get elected by saying what you believe.

Transcript: The fact . . . Well certainly politics and how our politicians all around the world, particularly in the United States, don’t say what they believe. Every time I give a speech, I get asked, “Do your ideas about authentic leadership apply to politics?” And I say, “I really don’t know if you could get elected.” Because today’s it’s not clear you can get elected anywhere by saying what you believe. And I think the lack of . . . the compromise that’s taken place in public life is a tragedy. And to me it’s gotten much worse over the last 40 years, to the point where good people . . . young people today don’t want to go into that life.

Recorded on: 7/6/07