The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

  • -- Christopher James Christie 克里斯托弗·詹姆斯·克里斯蒂

事实是你不能继续把我们的钱花在这些福利项目上。我认为我们在公共生活中需要更多的人愿意说,不,我们买不起某些东西。不,我们不能做某些事情。

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And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.

在福利改革方面,我们必须把他们从他们自己手中拯救出来,因为如果我们不改革社会保障制度和医疗保险制度,他们实际上会崩溃。

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

我们需要有这样一种文化,即“你能用于舒适生活的精力越少,你的生活就越好,你对自己的感觉也应该越好”。

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

我感觉就像摇滚明星觉得自己理所当然,而我只是觉得自己很幸运。

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

老朋友的好处之一就是你可以和他们一起做傻事。

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

现在我们有一个统治阶级,他们有一种法律,而人民有另一种法律。

Very few people can afford to be poor.

很少有人能忍受贫穷。