The man in the mirror

From Dave Bartlett’s debrief of ODP’s appearance before the Editorial Board of the Quebec Daily Newspaper:

However, he revealed this week he was close to walking away from political life before he even ran for office.

"I just looked in the mirror one morning and said, 'Look, if I don't do this, will I look back in 10 years time and say I could've made a difference?' And I think we've made a difference," Williams said.

Dave Bartlett must be a CTV/NTV viewer:

CBC The National, December 8, 2003:

I just didn't want to look in the mirror in ten years' time and say you walked away from it.

Cf. Rex Murphy’s puff-piece from The National of October 9, 2007. (Formerly at www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/politicseconomy/the_phenomenon.html
before the stand-up comics SuperGeniuses at CBC re-launched, made their shows unwatchable, and their website unuseable):

You know, I was 50 when the Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party here indicated he was stepping down. I had no interest in going into politics on the front line. I'd always been involved in organization, poll captains, done all of that, but I sat back and went away by myself because people were asking me then if I was interested in the leadership. And I finally got up one morning and looked in the mirror, and I said: "If I don't do this, in ten years' time, I might look back and say, you know, I might have made a difference." And that's what drives me. That's what motivates me. It's also the wrongs of the past that motivate me. I don't think we've gotten a fair shake in the eyes of the nation. I think we've got a lot to offer.