To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

  • -- Peter Schuyler 彼得·舒勒

说句公道话,说谎是公众生活的一部分。每个政客都撒过谎,因为他们被资助选举的特殊利益集团所拥有。

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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

我们如何为福利国家提供资金的问题不应掩盖另一个单独的问题:如果每个人都认为自己拥有不可剥夺的福利权利,不管世界发生什么,那不是公平,而是创造一个你不能向人们提出任何要求的社会。

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

我认为我们应该暂停两年的国会选举,告诉他们,不管他们做出什么决定,我们都不会反对他们,让他们帮助这个国家恢复。我真的希望有人能同意我的看法。

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

电视新闻现在是娱乐,故事是由对它们有特殊兴趣的人写的。

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

见鬼,我从来不投票给任何人,我总是投反对票。

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

我有国税局的记录来资助我想做的事情。