Gerald (Jerry) Butts

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96 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts Encore Episode - Making Tough Choices · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

important opportunities are missed because they're not obvious for people in politics.

And it's pretty clear to me anyway, from my vantage point, that what Mr. Polyev needs to do to make himself a more viable candidate for prime minister is to appear more statesman-like and open-minded to views

held by people who don't normally agree with him.

And if he could choose a high profile event to demonstrate that he's capable of that, he would coincidentally increase his electoral prospects materially in my view.

No, I think that, you know, just that there are issues that can transcend the political climate of the day.

And sometimes those issues do so because they're so big and the public just says, look, guys, this is Bengals.

This is way bigger than your political interests.

9-11, for instance, and the security arrangements the country had to come to afterward.

And sometimes they're kind of really important, but they're not going to decide the next election.

Couldn't resist.

Well, look, I mean, people go into these jobs with their eyes open.

And I think there's justifiably very little sympathy in the general public for politicians complaining about how difficult their jobs are.

There are a lot of offsetting benefits to the role they have.

And the biggest one, of course, being the privilege.

How many people in the history of the country have had the chance to be federal ministers of the crown, let alone prime minister?

It's an enormous privilege.

But in my experience, when James was

speaking earlier in the episode about the two examples where there were kind of real differences of opinion behind closed doors and cabinet.

And I had a phrase for that that I picked up somewhere along the road that you disagree and then consent, right?

You disagree and then we're all together, even though we still disagree.

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