And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

你不希望总是为了写政治而写政治。

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

任何不以个人责任为起点的政治议程和组织都只是理由的一半。它不会成功的。

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.

任何一位政界人士都希望拥有庞大的经济数据。

Anything's possible in politics.

政治上什么都有可能。

Architecture is politics.

体系结构是政治。

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

作为一个组织者，我从世界的现状出发，而不是我想要的样子。

As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

黑夜不会一下子降临，压迫也不会一下子降临。在这两种情况下，当一切似乎都保持不变时，就会有一个黄昏。正是在这样的暮色中，我们所有人都必须意识到空气中的变化，无论多么轻微，以免我们不知不觉地成为黑暗的牺牲品。

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

随着社会的堕落，语言也堕落了。语言是用来掩饰，而不是照亮行动的:你通过摧毁一座城市来解放它。言词是混淆视听的，这样在选举的时候人们就会庄严地投票反对自己的利益。

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

随着事态的发展，我们所缔造的和平，我们似乎正在缔造的和平，将是石油的和平，黄金的和平，航运的和平，简言之，和平。没有道德目的或人类利益。

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

当你铺床的时候，你必须躺在上面。

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

每当出现权力不平衡、真相受到质疑或我们的信仰和价值观受到扭曲时，恢复我们国家所需的变革总是从我们人民的底层开始。

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

做你自己的政治，种植你自己的花园，也许你可以帮助更多。

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.

美是身体的美德，正如美德是灵魂的美。

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

因为政治依赖于一种不可减少的强制手段，它永远不可能成为一个完美的爱与正义的完美王国。

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

从政就像当足球教练。你必须足够聪明去理解这个游戏，并且愚蠢到认为它很重要。