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Raphael Warnock: “I think, quite frankly, we need more folks in government who…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Raphael Warnock Discusses Activism, Governance, and Peacebuilding at US Institute of Peace Event

Published | Video Starts at 07:00

I'm sitting in a different chair now, but it's the same project. And Mandela, among others, is an important example for me. And I think, quite frankly, we need more folks in government who are coming there, having been advocates and activists. I don't know that, you know, at the risk of offending some of my colleagues, I don't know that a professional class of politicians has served us all that well. (07:00–07:12)

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Asserts the need for more government officials with backgrounds as advocates and activists.

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