Profiles in Courage

Long-dead politicians are not the only good examples. There are more recent ones too.

When I was in elementary school, I read a book of true stories, Profiles in Courage, written by John F. Kennedy, that literally caused me to wake up to a personal sense of awareness about political issues.

On the question of partisanship, Kennedy wrote, 

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

This is an ideal I would seek for in the political scene.