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。

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。