This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  • -- Barney Frank 巴尼·弗兰克

这一法案在立法上相当于漏洞。它会产生短期高点,但会对系统造成长期损害,而且启动成本很高。

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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

不仅失败的感觉越来越普遍,而且徒劳无益的感觉也越来越普遍。立法过程变成了一场残酷的空壳游戏,服务体系变成了官僚主义的迷宫,效率低下,令人费解,难以进入。

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

经济萧条不能通过立法行动或行政声明来治愈。经济创伤必须通过经济主体的细胞- -生产者和消费者本身- -的行动来愈合。

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

人们指责我支持全球化。这相当于指责我赞成早晨太阳升起。

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

一个伟大天才的出现,胜过一百个平庸之辈的诞生。