So,I guess it hits the right tone in that it is a promise that US policy in the Middle East and in the peace process, President Obama will try to do his best in the future,"

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The president that I work for, I always saw him trying to get first to the best policy based on his principles.

我辅佐的这位总统，我总会看见他努力根据自己的原则,规划出最好的政策。

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That is to say not even the best city on Aristotle's account can afford to be without a foreign policy.

这也就说明,就算是亚里士多德笔中的最佳之城,也承受不起没有外交政策的后果。

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I mean, there's a saying that the best politics is good policy.

我是说，有种说法叫做,最好的政治就是有好的政策。

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So it's probably not as final line as you might think, at least in my experience and in what I think is the best in government is make your policy choices first and then work out the politics.

所以可能并没有,你说的底线至少在我的经历中没有,我认为对政府最有益的是,先选择好政策,然后再谈政治。

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And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

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