I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

  • -- Patrick J. Kennedy 帕特里克J.肯尼迪

我认为,在保护我们的基本自由和公民自由的同时,成功地满足我们的国家安全需要,需要国会继续进行监督。

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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

对人类灵魂来说,没有什么比发现有古老而繁荣的文明社会更有益的了。不知何故,这些文明社会已经存在了好几个世纪,尽管在解决问题时没有得到旅行者的帮助,但它们仍然存在。

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

我还声明,我们有兴趣尊重我们的所有义务和履行我们的所有承诺。我们今天在这里已经宣布了这一新生的和平机会,我们将不遗余力地保护这一机会。

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

我是一个灵魂。我很清楚,我要献给坟墓的不是我自己。我的本性将到别处去。大地,你不是我的深渊!

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

我们为婴孩的坟墓哭泣,为因死离我们而去的婴孩的坟墓哭泣;但是早睡早起可能是通往天堂的捷径。

I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.'

我只是睡眠不足。但我从未遇到过一个非常成功的人,他在生命的尽头会说:“我希望我能睡得更多。”

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

内战吗?这是什么意思?有外国战争吗?不是每一场战争都是人与弟兄之间的战争吗?

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

过去是具有预言性的,因为它大声宣称,战争是雕刻和平明天的可怜的凿子。

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

对于一项成功的技术,现实必须凌驾于公共关系之上,因为自然是不会被愚弄的。

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

当你成功的时候,你很难承认你需要帮助。

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

我从错误中学到的比从成功中学到的要多。