The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

  • -- Bradley A. Smith 布拉德利·史密斯

现实是,要求公众为政治活动提供资金一事无成。候选人继续通过其他渠道寻求利益集团的支持,包括资金和实物支持,腐败问题比比皆是。

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I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!'

当我在危机中浏览所有的有线电视频道时,发现自己根本不看新闻,这让我非常沮丧。你会想,‘哦,上帝……有脱口秀,脱口秀,脱口秀,每个人都是专家!”

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

这条海峡只有当地人知道;这样,如果有陌生人在没有领航员的情况下进入这个海湾,他就有可能遭遇海难。

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

我曾经因为腐败而看不起这个世界,但现在我却因为腐败的绝对壮丽而崇拜它。

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

青年的责任是挑战腐败。