In this task, given a sentence in the Malay language, and your task is to convert it into the English language.

Example input: Perdana Menteri Blair dan Canselor Brown bersetuju mengenai keperluan untuk mengekalkan penghalang nuklear.
Example output: Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown agreed on the need to retain a nuclear deterrent.
Example explanation: The above sentence is correctly translated from Malay to English.
Q: Pada tahun 2000, parti itu menawarkannya sebagai calon presiden mereka, tetapi beliau menolak tawaran itu dengan berkata, "Saya seorang Republikan, dan saya tidak akan bertanding untuk Presiden."
A:
In 2000, the party recruited him to run as their presidential nominee, but he rejected the offer, saying, "I'm a Republican, and I'm not going to run for President."