There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

  • -- Elliot Lee Richardson 李理查森

不仅失败的感觉越来越普遍,而且徒劳无益的感觉也越来越普遍。立法过程变成了一场残酷的空壳游戏,服务体系变成了官僚主义的迷宫,效率低下,令人费解,难以进入。

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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

我的印象是,大多数的女性公共服务工作者都是脾气暴躁的。正是因为他们比任何人都更关心服务,所以他们仍然希望找到一个合理和公平的谈判协议。但他们的耐心已经耗尽。

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

经济萧条不能通过立法行动或行政声明来治愈。经济创伤必须通过经济主体的细胞- -生产者和消费者本身- -的行动来愈合。

I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

我珍视公共空间和公共服务的创造,尤其是健康、住房和全面的教育体系,它们敢于让我们中的许多人有超越自己的想法。

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

这一法案在立法上相当于漏洞。它会产生短期高点,但会对系统造成长期损害,而且启动成本很高。

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

当我用我的力量为我的视野服务时,我是否害怕并没有什么区别。

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.

计算是一个遵循有限可描述规则的过程。

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

关键是你想要一个反应灵敏的系统。

I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.

我很想成为汽车制造过程中的一员。