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Tue 02 Feb 2010Lee could have been contender but was left an outsider
The message for those contemplating making the jump to public life is that only insiders will dominate politics, writes ELAINE BYRNE
“IT IS a privilege to be here, of which I am conscious . . . Given the outcome of the byelection, there is no going back now . . . It is all about people . . . When a person has something powerful like a gun it is about how they use that power; it is about the responsibility with which he or she uses it . . . . I do not have much confidence in the Government’s ability to get us out of where we are and that is why I am here.”
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