Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

  • -- Eric Liu 刘耀威

保守派忘记了公民身份不仅仅是对移民的一种保留。进步人士忘记了这不仅仅是一套权利。

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

波希米亚不过是一个你不住的小地方。如果你想在那里获得公民身份,朝廷和随从们立刻把王室的档案和财宝打包,搬到山那边去。

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

社会保守派非常注重加强家庭,我认为他们这样做是正确的。左派最大的盲点之一就是不愿意说婚姻对孩子很重要。

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong.

考虑到深刻的社会变革,保守主义者总是期待灾难,而革命者则暗地里期待乌托邦。两者都是错误的。

People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

人们想要一个结果。移民选民并不愚蠢,他们会知道谁站在他们这一边。

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

因此,一个人应该同时谈论国籍和更广泛的欧洲国籍。

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

我们是一个移民国家,但我们也是一个法治国家。