To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

  • -- Peter Schuyler 彼得·舒勒

说句公道话,说谎是公众生活的一部分。每个政客都撒过谎,因为他们被资助选举的特殊利益集团所拥有。

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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

我们如何为福利国家提供资金的问题不应掩盖另一个单独的问题:如果每个人都认为自己拥有不可剥夺的福利权利,不管世界发生什么,那不是公平,而是创造一个你不能向人们提出任何要求的社会。

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

电视新闻现在是娱乐,故事是由对它们有特殊兴趣的人写的。

Those who vote decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything.

那些投票的人什么也不能决定;计票的人决定一切。

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.

选举只不过是预先拍卖赃物。

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

金钱像时间一样吞噬自己的孩子。