Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

  • -- Honoré de Balzac 尊敬的巴尔扎克

官僚主义是俾格米人操纵的巨大机制。

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People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

人们渴望电子技术的巨大进步,追求电脑、互联网等。这是技术上的巨大进步。但是他们必须有一个灵魂的平衡,一个人类美的平衡。这意味着艺术有着重要的作用。

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

在这个国家做事,如果你想做点什么,如果你想开一家公司,有那么多的官僚作风和批准,这几乎是不可能的。

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

简而言之,人的真正恶意只出现在国家和教会中,作为一种聚集、概括和总和的制度。

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

我们将削减项目,我们将努力控制官僚机构的规模。我们将使被过分夸大的联邦工资标准与市场利率保持一致。

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

人们永远看不到的电视,国际大公司永远不会接触的电视,永远不会给你发工资的电视。

I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

我相信,一个国家元首所能拥有的最大财富就是能够睡个好觉。