They're the result of millions of individual decisions at millions of points in time.

他说,"这些疾病是每时每刻,由每个人所作的决定导致的

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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。

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So I took it as my role not to keep decisions away from him, but if they were important enough, to make sure that he had, he, the president, not a compromise, he the president had the oppotunity to make decisions among his cabinet officers, and he did.

所以我的作用是,让决定权掌握在他手上，如果事情非常重要，确保布什总统，不是那个折中意见，是总统,有机会在内阁官员的意见中,作自己的决定，他也是这么做的。

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