Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  • -- Fletcher Knebel 弗莱彻·克奈贝尔

政治才能比政治更难。政治是一门与人相处的艺术,而政治家是一门与政治家相处的艺术。

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I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

我发现,在经历了录制唱片的过程之后,在成长的过程中,你应该表达出那些影响你的东西,而不是仅仅为了让别人从中得到一些东西而唱出一个主题。

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.

人们很容易认为政客腐败,投票实质上是两害相权取其轻。我理解这种观点,觉得它是正确的。

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

如果我有选择的话,我会杀了世界上所有的记者,但我肯定我们会在早餐前收到来自地狱的报道。

And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.

我可以这么说,大多数录过我歌的人都是词曲作者。

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

如果人们对绘画的了解和我一样多,他们就不会买我的画了。

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

政客们把自己说得面红耳赤、面红耳赤、面红耳赤。