A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政客们
Politicians
The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
记者们唯一说政客坏话的人是其他政客。
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
广告人和政客如果分开，是危险的。他们一起是恶魔。
Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.
采访政客和电影明星，你知道你会得到什么。我更喜欢人物故事。
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
抽烟使我平静下来。这是愉快的。我不想让政客们来决定我生活中什么是令人兴奋的。
It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
很难说政客为什么被称为仆人，除非是因为很难找到一个好仆人。
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
我们应该对我们的孩子有很高的期望，但政治家不应该告诉老师如何满足他们。
The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.
公众认为政客们不知道或不关心他们的生活;政客们感到被误解了。
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
我认为，当私营部门真正能做大事时，政客们就会被政治的本质束缚住手脚。
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
政客的权力有限。他们不能把道德强加于自己。他们怎么能把它强加给这个国家呢?
Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.
政客们在追求权力的过程中会有所收敛，但他们这样做是为了获得选票。
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
我见过许多和我一样双腿瘫痪的政客，但我见过更多头部瘫痪的政客。
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
我只剩下一件事，而且只有一件事，那就是小丑。它把我置于比任何政治家都高得多的位置。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.
我们必须相信政客们的决定。
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
当然，伟大的政治家总是容易在某些事情上犯错，人们越是告诉他们自己错了，他们就越是固执地为自己的错误辩护。
It's a pattern. Prices go up, consumers get angry, politicians investigate, nothing changes.
这是一个模式。物价上涨，消费者愤怒，政客调查，没有任何改变。
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
曾尝试扮演丘吉尔和麦克阿瑟的演员都以惨败告终，因为他们都是扮演自己的伟大演员。
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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。
Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.
政客们总是用不同的方式互相批评。