It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

  • -- Iain Duncan Smith 伊恩·邓肯·史密斯

公平地说,那些努力工作,早上起床,削减他们的衣服-换句话说,“我们只能负担得起一个或两个孩子,因为我们没有足够的收入”。他们交税,他们想知道同样的决策也发生在那些领救济金的人身上。

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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.

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。

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

这就像他们只是给我们一个玩具玩,做我们想做的任何事情。

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

在我看来,任何买得起报纸的人都不应该被允许拥有一份。

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

我想我太善良、太慷慨了,而且是个圣人——如果你能相信的话!