The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

  • -- Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert 奥伯伦·爱德华·威廉·莫利纽斯·赫伯特

政治家的职业生涯主要是使国家的一部分做它不想做的事,以取悦和满足国家的另一部分。

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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

经济学的第一课是稀缺性:任何东西永远不会足够满足所有想要它的人。政治的第一课是忽视经济学的第一课。

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

联合国的整个基础是所有国家- -无论大国还是小国- -都有权有分量,有权投票,有权得到注意,有权成为二十世纪的一部分。

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

作为一个国家和一个民族,我们需要重新点燃这些价值观和力量……我们必须团结一心,实现一个目标。

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

事业,就像火箭,并不总是准时起飞。诀窍是始终保持引擎运转。

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

我生物化学职业生涯中一个意想不到的好处是旅行。