So what do we do? The standard answer is that we need better leaders. The real answer is that we need better citizens. We need citizens who will convey to their leaders that they are ready to sacrifice, even pay, yes, higher taxes, and will not punish politicians who ask them to do the hard things. Otherwise, folks, we're in trouble. A great power that can only produce suboptimal responses to its biggest challenges will, in time, fade from being a great power — no matter how much imagination it generates.
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We need progressive policies that shape collective action (and rein in polluting businesses), alongside engaged citizens pushing for change.
我们需要先进的政策来打造集体行动(并遏制污染企业),同时需要参与其中的公民推动变革。
Here at home, we \ \ \ 're working to ensure that our poorest citizens get the food they need.
在国内,我们正在努力,以确保我们最贫穷的公民获得他们需要的食物。
We need a bold alliance of phone companies who fear losing public trust and concerned citizens to come together in opposition to these plans.
我们需要电话公司们大胆联盟,他们害怕会失去公众信任,担忧公民们联合起来反对这些计划。
And we need to continue to promote democracy and human rights beyond freedom's current frontiers, so that citizens everywhere are afforded the opportunity to pursue their dreams and live up to their own God-given potential,".
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But we also need it to become effective citizens.
然而我们也需要劳动力变成高效的公民。
Well of course it's an important value to have in general that in order to be good neighbors in the world we need to understand it, we need to-- if we're going to be good citizens in the world we have to know what other people are doing and what's affecting us.
总的来说,它的重要之处在于,为了成为世界上其他国家的好邻居,我们要懂得,如果要成为世界上的一个好公民的话,我们得知道其他国家的人在做什么,是什么在影响我们
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