Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

  • -- John Kenneth Galbraith 加尔布雷思

政治不是可能性的艺术。它包括在灾难和不愉快之间做出选择。

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What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

在做决定之前,你通常做的是咨询。最好的公共政策是当你倾听那些将要受到影响的人的意见时制定的。然后,一旦政策确定下来,你就会要求他们帮助你推销它。

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

每一种艺术,每一种探索,同样每一种行动和选择,都被认为是为了某种善;因此,善被正确地宣布为一切事物的目标。

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

似乎代表选择的活动往往是对公认实践的惰性复制。

Reason is also choice.

理性也是一种选择。