A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政治
Political
I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
我不认为我们对他们的想法有很好的记录，除了，正如我今天早些时候指出的，他们确实发明了我们的政治体系。
If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
如果条件合适，可能会有很大的接受度。通常只有当它们构成经济或政治威胁时，情况才会变得非常糟糕。
The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
政治制度不适合人民。人民对经济来说是次要的。这是为了赚钱，而不是为了造福人民。
Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
显然，在三四年前，我是不会这么说的。但我真的相信。这是一次奇妙而重要的经历。
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.
今天，当强大的龙卷风来袭时，该技术可以提供早期和通常充足的预警。当龙卷风来袭时，我们所有人都处于危险之中。
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
的确，我也厌倦了把书当作政治子弹和手榴弹。书太珍贵，太精彩了，不能这样长时间地使用。
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
艾滋病毒携带者仍然受到歧视。感染率正在上升。人死亡。政治上的反应令人震惊。它的悲伤，它的浪费。
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.
学前教育的毕业生更有可能从高中毕业，而不太可能需要特殊教育、留级或在青春期犯罪。
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
考虑到这篇文章是革命方面的政治小册子，以及它是辉格派福音长达一个世纪的事实，你将看到它的工作价值。
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
收益可能是暂时的和不确定的;可是，只要你活着，花销总是固定不变的，而且是确定无疑的。建造两个烟囱比把一个装进燃料里要容易得多。
I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.
我看不出在这个时代，有谁不可能不关心政治。有很多事情要做，你必须意识到，你必须投票。我们的生活是政治性的。
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
没有任何其他特殊资格的人，除了他们生活中的戏剧性事件之外，往往会突然被提拔到重要的政治职位上。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
如果我不这样做，我就会在学校里学习政治学或社会经济学之类的东西。我喜欢参观不同的文化，了解他们是如何组成一个社会的。
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
人民的声音据说是上帝的声音;而且，无论这句格言被引用和相信的程度有多普遍，它都不符合事实。人民是动荡多变的，他们很少判断或决定正确的。
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
该声明并没有针对政治声明的作者。我说我对企图误导公众和/引发/政治干预感到遗憾。确实有这样的尝试。
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
每个人都应该被认为是无赖，这是一条公正的政治格言。
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
金钱从来不会使人幸福，将来也不会。从本质上讲，没有什么能产生幸福。一个人拥有的越多，他想要的就越多。
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
说得多的人大错特错。