A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
政客们
Politicians
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.
政客们的秘密生活总是见不得人的。人们需要接受这样一个事实:他们的领导者并不完美。没有人是。
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
政客之所以吸引人，是因为他们构成了这样一个悖论;他们是一个精英，为了公共利益而完成平庸。
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
一次又一次，我们听到政客们说，在经济如此脆弱的时候，他们不能把我们的税金花在环境保护上。
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。
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
如果我们现在让深夜脱口秀主持人承担与政客或牧师同样的道德责任，我就出局了。我走了。
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。
Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
人们很容易认为政客腐败，投票实质上是两害相权取其轻。我理解这种观点，觉得它是正确的。
People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
人们并不像政客们想的那么愚蠢。我们中越来越多的人对投票的“公民义务”一笑置之，拒绝扮演强制选民的角色。
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
政客们和孩子们一样，在一段时间内是很好的伙伴——他们的自娱自乐是会传染的。但他们很快就耗尽了他们最喜欢的科目——他们自己。
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。
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.
我已经看到，与主流政策相关联的有效语言，以及那些充满激情、卓有成效的人所提出的政策，能够改变历史的进程。
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
你不能相信政客。谁做政治演讲并不重要。所有这些都是谎言——同样适用于任何想要发表政治演讲的摇滚明星。
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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。
We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.
我们不应该让政客们插手这场战争，因为它是复杂的、非常规的。
I'd rather have the illusion that (politicians) had ideas and high inspirations and principals, that they foster something in people that makes them want to be part of it instead of all of this exclusion stuff, which is really horrible. Everyone's not the same.
我宁愿幻想(政客)有想法，有高度的灵感和原则，他们在人们身上培养某种东西，使他们想成为其中的一部分，而不是所有这些排斥的东西，这真的很可怕。每个人都不一样。
Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.
政客们是来处理问题的，但有时像我们这样的人拥有更多……不是参与，而是在我们所说的事情上有更多的权力。
Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
我得说，我不太受政客们的欢迎。
Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.
政客们之间关于货币政策的任何辩论都会适得其反。