He quoted Mario Cuomo's line about campaigning in poetry and governing in prose.

他引用了马利奥·库默散文与诗中关于活动与治理的语句。

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And think great literature: Even the secular novel is drenched in the prose and poetry of the King James.

还有一些文学经典，即使世俗小说都从国王版中汲取散文和诗歌的营养。

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My attainments were few, my knowledge of life meagre, and both in my poetry and my prose the sentiment exceeded the substance.

我的造诣很浅，生活知识贫乏，在我的诗歌和散文中，情感超过了内容。

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Of course, as Winston Churchill famously said, you campaign in poetry but govern in prose.

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You campaign in poetry and govern in prose, as Churchill said, and Obama is a classic example of the problem.

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He admitted as much to his party last September, when he cited the dictum of Mario Cuomo that you campaign in poetry but govern in prose.

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