The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.

  • -- Bradley A. Smith 布拉德利·史密斯

现实是,要求公众为政治活动提供资金一事无成。候选人继续通过其他渠道寻求利益集团的支持,包括资金和实物支持,腐败问题比比皆是。

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I get really frustrated during a crisis when I go through all the cable channels and find - very often with the exception of CNN - that I'm not watching news at all. You think, 'Well, God... there are talk shows, talk shows, talk shows and everyone is an expert!'

当我在危机中浏览所有的有线电视频道时,发现自己根本不看新闻,这让我非常沮丧。你会想,‘哦,上帝……有脱口秀,脱口秀,脱口秀,每个人都是专家!”

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

大学的微妙之处在于,它的性格是复杂的,它悬在永恒世界的地位与我们想象的辉煌世界之间,这个世界充满了腐败、邪恶和残酷。

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

作为一名专栏作家,我意识到,不管我揭露了多少腐败,半数读者都会把它挡在门外,尽管他们可能会在这个过程中感到一阵喜悦。

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

如果你想看历史频道的文字和历史完美。