He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”
“Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.”