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

Very difficult problems, but in my judgement, all solvable if we generate the country in the kind of bipartizan political cooperation and political courage that will be necessary to fix them.

这些问题很不容易解决，但我认为,不是不能解决，只要我们,以这种两党制的合作形式治理国家,还要有治理它们的政治勇气。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The thing that comes to my mind is that-- I want to say before concluding this review of the last lecture-- that is that the stock market is inherently political in any country.

浮现在我脑海中的一件事是,在回顾环节结束之前,我想谈谈这个,那就是在任一国家的股票市场上,都会被固有的政治因素所影响

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We relied on plitical polling and political advice to decide what issue to emphasize, how to talk about it, what region of the country to talk about it and so on.

政治上有时会依靠民意测验,和政治建议帮助我们作决定,该强调什么问题，怎么讨论，在国家的哪个地区讨论它,诸如此类。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选