今天早上看HBO--"The American President" 是很久以前的片子了(1995)，但很好看。
尤其現任總統終於出來針對另一位總統候選人一些無謂的攻擊做出回應時，真是說得太好了!
原文照錄:
He is interested in two things and two things only:
making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it.
那就是總統的高度!
另外一部電影也顯示了總統的高度--"Invictus" (打不倒的勇者)，
描述Nelson Mandela,
雖無從得知他實際上如何當總統，但是在電影中，他做了總統真正該做的事--
To unite and inspire the nation
許多人也做不到的事情是-原諒
"Mandela could spend thirty years in a tiny cell, and come out ready to forgive the people
who put [him] there".
下面這首詩是在獄中鼓舞著他的詩句: (Invictus)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.