Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  • -- George Jean Nathan 内森

坏官员是由不投票的好公民选出来的。

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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

这不是人与人之间的竞争。全地最卑微的国民,若披著公义的兵器,比一切犯罪的军兵更强。我来到你们面前,是为了捍卫一项和自由一样神圣的事业——人类的事业。

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

作为公民,我们必须更有思想、更有教育、更有见识。我打开电视,看到这些成年人互相大喊大叫,我想,如果我们不恢复我们的礼貌,我们就有麻烦了。

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

让我告诉你那些重要的民意调查,这些是选举前几周的民意调查。这时,民意测验专家们开始担心他们的可信度。所有人都记得这些民调。

The election isn't very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

当一个候选人隔着马路就能认出你时,选举就不远了。