He soon made clear he would not take orders from party leaders.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

There's never been a successful third-party political culture take hold in this country without one really big issue to drive it.

美国就从没有过,第三政党真正成功执政的时候,因为缺乏一个真正重大的议题来支持它

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You were sort of in a punchbowl The country was at a party and we kept drinking from this punchbowl, enjoying ourselves, and the rest of the world would take our dollars.

你就有点像在一个动力十足的碗里,那样的话，整个国家就像是一个大派对，我们在这个,动力十足的碗里畅饮，尽情愉悦，世界其他国家或地区的人也会接受美元。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Maybe she would ask Thomas Antrim to take her to the party!

VOA: special.2009.01.31

After months of rigorous debate on health insurance reform, fought largely along political party lines, President Obama says a bipartisan solution is starting to take shape.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

ANC Youth Wing leader Julius Malema told a few hundred ZANU-PF youth members the South African party would follow Zimbabwe's lead, and soon take over white farms in South Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Not everyone celebrated when Mihai Ghimpu became the first politician of Moldova's four-party ruling coalition to take office, as parliament speaker: All members of the Communist Party in parliament boycotted the vote and walked out of the legislature.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29