It would be easier to shrink back from that frontier, to look to the safe mediocrity of the past, to be lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric--and those who prefer that course should not cast their votes for me, regardless of party.

• 面对这个边疆，知难而退，安于过去的平凡成就，停留于良好的意愿和空洞的豪言壮语，是比较容易的做法--喜欢走那条路的人，无论属于哪一党，都不应该投我的票。