Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

官僚主义是俾格米人操纵的巨大机制。

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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

如果你一旦丧失了同胞们的信任,你就永远无法重新获得他们的尊重和尊重。的确,有时候你可能会愚弄所有的人;你甚至可以一直愚弄一些人;但是你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

人们渴望电子技术的巨大进步,追求电脑、互联网等。这是技术上的巨大进步。但是他们必须有一个灵魂的平衡,一个人类美的平衡。这意味着艺术有着重要的作用。

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

国会、媒体和官僚机构往往过于关注花了多少钱或精力,而不是这些钱或精力是否真的达到了宣布的目标。

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

我们将削减项目,我们将努力控制官僚机构的规模。我们将使被过分夸大的联邦工资标准与市场利率保持一致。

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

一个繁荣的、道德可信的媒体是维持真正的公开谈话、关于共同利益的辩论的一个重要组成部分。

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

人们永远看不到的电视,国际大公司永远不会接触的电视,永远不会给你发工资的电视。