We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

  • -- Carlos Mesa 卡洛斯·梅萨

我们必须建立一个能够满足公民需求的国家,我们需要那些因为国家为公民服务而对国家感到忠诚的公民。

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As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

作为公民,我们必须更有思想、更有教育、更有见识。我打开电视,看到这些成年人互相大喊大叫,我想,如果我们不恢复我们的礼貌,我们就有麻烦了。

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

我觉得我们生活在这样一种文化中,你必须非常聪明才能找到正确的方向,而我就是没有那种聪明。我认为随着年龄和时间的推移,它会发生变化,但我不能沉迷于它。

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

我们有责任向新奥尔良的洪水灾民如实回答为什么会发生这样的事件,并向我们的公民保证这样的悲剧不会再次发生。

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

如果你让别人让你相信你别无选择,你所做的任何事情都不会让你感觉良好。