But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

  • -- Chris Patten 作者

但是,我认为,政治领导的本质是能够清楚地表达自己在做什么,并且能够坚持到底。

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There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

在我的职业生涯中,有时我会因为期望而走得比我想要的更远。当孩子们在舞台上,穿着特定的衣服,唱着特定的歌词,做着特定的事情。

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

尽管我与圣人和英雄交谈得很多,但他们很少有我的爱和钦佩。我渴望乡村和家庭的景色,渴望鸟鸣和孩子们的闲聊。

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

我是个海军小子。你会发现很多舞台演员都是陆军或海军的小混混,因为他们有能力给人留下深刻的印象,结交朋友,然后几个月后就离开了。

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

回顾我的自由主义政治信仰时,我有一种奇怪的感觉——这是另一种自我参与的方式——因为某种我无法从逻辑上描述的优越感而奖励自己。

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

女性必须坚持的不是她们以男性的方式看待世界的能力,而是她们以另一种方式看待世界的重要性和有效性。

My children are all doing just fine. The mountain dogs are great in this weather. The yorkies are freezing.

我的孩子们都很好。这种天气山区的狗很好。约克人冻坏了。