Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

  • -- Paul Samuelson 保罗·萨缪尔森

政客们喜欢告诉人们他们想听什么,而他们想听的是不会发生的事情。

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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

如果我们遇到一个诚实而聪明的政治家,十来个,一百来个,我们说他们根本不像政治家,我们的政治家类别没有变化;我们知道政客是什么样的人。

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

我想当然地认为,你不希望听到来自讲坛或神学教室的回音。

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

眼见的一半要相信,耳闻的一半要相信,除非你是听我说的。

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

一个政治家应该生为弃儿,保持独身。