The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  • -- Bess Myerson 贝丝·尔森

腐败犯罪的共犯往往是我们自己的冷漠。

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Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

听着,我们知道当我们占多数的时候我们搞砸了。我们爱上了权力。我们花了太多钱,特别是专项拨款。我们经营这个地方的时候腐败太严重了。我们是有罪的。这就是我们失败的原因。

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

我们的国家现在走的道路是如此稳定,以致于表明它将走哪条路走向毁灭,也就是说:首先通过巩固权力,然后是腐败,来显示其必然的后果。

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

犯罪的原因很复杂。但是有很多文献,关于单亲家庭犯罪,种族犯罪,贫困犯罪。

A first impulse was never a crime.

第一次冲动从来不是犯罪。