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Farewell Address to House of Representatives

众议院告别演说

"Partisanship is the worst means of settling fundamental political differences -- except for all the others."

“党派之争是解决根本政治分歧的最糟糕手段——除了所有其他手段。”

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* Mr. Speaker, political careers tend to end in one of three ways: defeat, death, or retirement.

* 议长先生，政治生涯往往以三种方式之一结束：失败、死亡或退休。

And despite the fervent and mostly noble exertions of my adversaries over the years, I rise today to bid farewell to this House under the happiest of the available options.

尽管我的对手多年来做出了热情而高尚的努力，但我今天仍站起来，以最愉快的可用选择向众议院告别。

I wish to begin the end of my congressional career by publicly thanking for the last time as their representative the people of the 22nd District of Texas.

在结束我的国会生涯时，我希望最后一次作为德克萨斯州第 22 选区的代表公开感谢他们。

Everything I have ever been able to accomplish here I owe and dedicate to them.

我在这里所取得的一切成就都归功于他们并奉献给他们。

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve them here.

能够在这里为他们服务是我的荣幸。

And, Mr. Speaker -- the real speaker, he's on his way -- I -- it -- it -- I want to tell the real speaker it's been an honor to serve with Denny Hastert, and who is my good friend, my most trusted partner and colleague, and I want to take just a moment to congratulate him myself on becoming the longest serving Republican speaker in history.

而且，议长先生——真正的议长，他正在路上——我——它——它——我想告诉真正的议长，与丹尼·哈斯特一起工作是我的荣幸，他是我的好朋友，我最值得信赖的合作伙伴和同事，我想花一点时间祝贺他成为历史上任职时间最长的共和党议长。

What a blessing this place is, Mr. Speaker.

议长先生，这个地方真是太幸运了。

What a castle of hope this building is, this institution is for the people of the world.

这座建筑是一座多么希望的城堡，这个机构是为全世界人民服务的。

It's one of those things in political life that you always know but seldom notice.

这是政治生活中你总是知道但很少注意到的事情之一。

The schedules we're forced to keep during our days in Washington are not always hospitable to sitting back and reflecting on the historical significance of our surroundings.

我们在华盛顿被迫遵守的日程安排并不总是适合坐下来反思我们周围环境的历史意义。

In the weeks since I announced my retirement, however, I found myself doing just that.

然而，在我宣布退休后的几周里，我发现自己正在这样做。

I noticed things like I haven't in years.

我注意到了我多年来没有注意到的事情。

I noticed the monuments on The Mall.

我注意到购物中心上的纪念碑。

I noticed that in Washington's obelisk, the father of our country is represented not as an object of glory, but as a dutiful sentry at attention minding his post for eternity.

我注意到，在华盛顿的方尖碑上，我们国家的国父并不是被描绘成荣耀的对象，而是被描绘成一个尽职尽责的哨兵，永远守护着自己的岗位。

I noticed that under Jefferson's dome the statue of the man is relatively understated while his etched words still thunder from the marble with the power to drive history.

我注意到，在杰斐逊的圆顶下，这个人的雕像相对低调，而他的蚀刻文字仍然从大理石上雷鸣般地发出，具有推动历史的力量。

I noticed that Lincoln's chair, the man who sought above all peace and reconciliation, keeps one of his hands in a perpetual fist.

我注意到林肯的椅子，这位最追求和平与和解的人，一只手永远握在拳头里。

I walk these halls with a keener perspective.

我以更敏锐的视角走过这些大厅。

I notice now the statues of old and great and, in some cases, almost forgotten heroes that line the halls of this building that stand in Statuary Hall.

我现在注意到雕像大厅里矗立着这座建筑的大厅里排列着古老而伟大的雕像，在某些情况下，甚至是几乎被遗忘的英雄雕像。

In these halls, I have also noticed in recent weeks the number of tourists in the Capitol who speak no English.

在这些大厅里，我最近几周还注意到国会大厦里不会说英语的游客数量。

They are not from America, most of these visitors, and yet in a certain sense of course they are.

大多数游客都不是来自美国，但从某种意义上来说，他们当然是来自美国。

They may speak Italian or Polish or Japanese, but the freedoms they enjoy, both here and in their own countries, have been inspired, won, and secured by the ideals and the courage and the compassion of the American people.

他们可能会说意大利语、波兰语或日语，但他们在这里和在自己的国家所享有的自由是由美国人民的理想、勇气和同情心激发、赢得和保障的。

These pilgrims come from all over the world to the House of Representatives to sit up in these galleries, photograph the statues, and stare up at the Rotunda, to bear witness to the awesome feat of human liberty we have achieved right here.

这些朝圣者从世界各地来到众议院，坐在这些画廊里，拍摄雕像，凝视圆形大厅，见证我们在这里取得的人类自由的伟大壮举。

The dome above us, Mr. Speaker, is a lighthouse, a star even, by which all the people in the world, no matter how oppressed, how impoverished, how seemingly without hope can chart a course toward security, prosperity, and freedom.

议长先生，我们头顶上的圆顶是一座灯塔，甚至是一颗星星，全世界人民，无论多么受压迫、多么贫穷、多么看似没有希望，都可以通过它指明一条通往安全、繁荣和自由的道路。

It is worth considering -- though I'll admit, it is considerably easier to consider after you've announced your retirement -- whether the days we lead here, the debates we wage, the work we do is always worthy of the elevated ideals embodied in that dome.

值得考虑的是——尽管我承认，在你宣布退休之后考虑起来要容易得多——我们在这里领导的日子，我们进行的辩论，我们所做的工作是否总是值得那个圆顶所体现的崇高理想。

I submit that we could do better, as could all people in all things at all times, but perhaps not in the ways some might think.

我认为我们可以做得更好，就像所有人在任何时候、在所有事情上都可以做得更好，但也许不是以某些人想象的方式。

In preparing for today, I found that it is customary in speeches such as these to reminisce about the good old days of political harmony and across-the-aisle camaraderie, and to lament the bitter, divisive partisan rancor that supposedly now weakens our -- our democracy.

在为今天做准备的过程中，我发现在这样的演讲中，人们习惯性地回忆政治和谐和两党友爱的美好时光，并对痛苦的、分裂的党派积怨表示哀叹，据说这种积怨现在削弱了我们的民主。

Well, I can't do that because partisanship, Mr. Speaker, properly understood, is not a symptom of democracy's weakness but of its health and its strength, especially from the perspective of a political conservative.

嗯，我不能这么做，因为议长先生，如果正确理解的话，党派之争并不是民主制度软弱的表现，而是民主制度健康和力量的表现，特别是从政治保守派的角度来看。

Liberalism, after all, whatever you may think of its merits, is a political philosophy and a proud one with a great tradition in this country, with a voracious appetite for growth.

毕竟，无论你如何看待自由主义的优点，它都是一种政治哲学，是一种令人自豪的政治哲学，在这个国家具有伟大的传统，具有对增长的贪婪欲望。

In any place or any time on any issue, what does liberalism ever seek, Mr. Speaker?

议长先生，在任何地点、任何时间，在任何问题上，自由主义到底追求什么？

More.

更多的。

More government, more taxation, more control over people's lives and decisions and wallets.

更多的政府、更多的税收、对人们生活、决策和钱包的更多控制。

If conservatives don't stand up to liberalism, no one will.

如果保守派不反抗自由主义，那么没有人会反抗。

And for a long time around here, almost no one did.

而且很长一段时间，这里几乎没有人这样做。

Indeed, the common lament over the recent rise in political partisanship is often nothing more than a veiled complaint instead about the recent rise of political conservatism.

事实上，人们对最近政治党派之争抬头的普遍哀叹往往只不过是一种含蓄的抱怨，而不是对最近政治保守主义抬头的抱怨。

I should add here that I do not begrudge liberals their nostalgia for the days of a timid, docile, and permanent Republican minority.

我应该在这里补充一点，我并不嫉妒自由主义者对胆怯、温顺和永久的共和党少数派日子的怀念。

If we Republicans had ever enjoyed that same luxury over the last 12 years, heck, I'd be nostalgic too.

如果我们共和党人在过去 12 年里曾经享受过同样的奢侈，哎呀，我也会怀念的。

Had liberals not fought us tooth and nail over tax cuts, and budget cuts, and energy, and Iraq, and partial-birth abortion, those of us on this side of the aisle could only imagine all the additional things we could have accomplished.

如果自由派没有在减税、削减预算、能源、伊拉克和部分出生堕胎问题上与我们进行激烈的斗争，我们这些站在过道这一边的人只能想象我们能够完成的所有额外事情。

But the fact of the matter is, Mr. Speaker, they didn't agree with us.

但事实是，议长先生，他们不同意我们的观点。

So to their credit, they stood up to us; they argued with us, and they did so honorably, on behalf of more than 100 million people, just like we did against President Clinton and they did against President Reagan.

因此，值得赞扬的是，他们勇敢地反抗了我们。他们与我们争论，而且他们代表一亿多人民光荣地这样做，就像我们反对克林顿总统和他们反对里根总统一样。

Now it -- it goes without saying, Mr. Speaker, that by my count, our friends on the other side of the aisle lost every one of those arguments over the last 22 years, but that's beside the point.

现在，不用说，议长先生，据我所知，我们在过道另一边的朋友在过去 22 年里输掉了所有这些争论，但这不是重点。

The point is, we disagree.

关键是，我们不同意。

On first principles, Mr. Speaker, we disagree.

议长先生，就首要原则而言，我们不同意。

And so we debate, often loudly, and often in vain, to convince our opponents and the American people of our point of view.

因此，我们经常大声辩论，但往往徒劳无功，以使我们的对手和美国人民相信我们的观点。

We debate here on the House floor; we debate in committees; we debate on television and on radio and on the Internet and in the newspapers.

我们在众议院进行辩论；我们在委员会中辩论；我们在电视、广播、互联网和报纸上进行辩论。

And then every two years, we have a huge debate.

然后每隔两年，我们就会进行一场激烈的辩论。

And then in November, we see who won.

然后到 11 月，我们就会看到谁赢了。

That is not rancor -- that is democracy.

这不是仇恨——这就是民主。

You show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a tyranny.

你向我展示一个没有党派之争的国家，我将向你展示一个暴政。

For all its faults, it is partisanship, based on core principles, that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream, and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

尽管存在种种缺陷，但基于核心原则的党派之争澄清了我们的辩论，防止某一党偏离主流太远，并不断用新思想和新领导人刷新我们的政治。

Indeed, whatever role partisanship may have played in my own retirement today or in the unfriendliness heaped upon other leaders in other times, Republican or Democrat, however unjust, all we can say is that partisanship is the worst means of settling fundamental political differences -- except for all the others.

事实上，无论党派之争在我今天退休时或在其他时期对其他领导人（共和党或民主党）的不友好中扮演什么角色，无论多么不公正，我们只能说，党派之争是解决根本政治分歧的最糟糕手段——除了所有其他手段。

Now, politics demands compromise.

现在，政治需要妥协。

And Mr. Speaker, and -- and even the most partisan among us have to understand that.

议长先生，甚至我们当中最有党派倾向的人也必须明白这一点。

But we must never forget that compromise and bipartisanship are means, not ends, and are properly employed only in the service of higher principles.

但我们决不能忘记，妥协和两党合作只是手段，而不是目的，只有在服务于更高原则时才能得到适当运用。

It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

贬低我们公共辩论的不是有原则的党派，无论他的对手看起来多么令人讨厌，而是那些自命不凡、自诩为政治家的人将妥协提升为首要原则。

For the true statesman, Mr. Speaker, we are not defined by what they compromise, but [by] what they don't.

议长先生，对于真正的政治家来说，我们的定义不是他们妥协了什么，而是他们没有妥协什么。

Conservatives, especially less enamored of government's lust for growth, must remember that our principles must always drive our agenda and not the other way around.

保守派，尤其是不那么热衷于政府对增长的渴望的人，必须记住，我们的原则必须始终驱动我们的议程，而不是相反。

For us, conservatives, there are two such principles that can never be honorably compromised: human freedom and human dignity.

对于我们保守派来说，有两个原则永远不能光荣地妥协：人类自由和人类尊严。

Now, our agenda over the last 12 years has been an outgrowth of these first principles.

现在，我们过去 12 年的议程就是这些首要原则的产物。

We lowered taxes to increase freedom.

我们降低税收以增加自由。

We reformed welfare programs that, however well-intentioned, undermined the dignity of work and personal responsibility, and perpetuated poverty.

我们改革了福利计划，无论其初衷多么好，都损害了工作的尊严和个人责任，并使贫困长期存在。

We have opposed abortion, cloning and euthanasia, because such procedures fundamentally deny the unique dignity of the human person.

我们反对堕胎、克隆和安乐死，因为这些程序从根本上否定了人类独特的尊严。

And we have supported the spread of democracy and the ongoing war against terror, because those policies protect and affirm the inalienable human right of all men and women and children to live in freedom.

我们支持民主的传播和正在进行的反恐战争，因为这些政策保护和确认所有男人、女人和儿童自由生活的不可剥夺的人权。

Conservatism is often unfairly accused of being insensitive and mean-spirited, sometimes unfortunately even by other conservatives.

保守主义常常被不公平地指责为麻木不仁、心胸狭窄，不幸的是有时甚至被其他保守派指责。

As a result, conservatives often attempt to soften that stereotype by overfunding broken programs or glossing over ruinous policies.

因此，保守派经常试图通过为不完善的项目提供过多资金或掩盖破坏性政策来软化这种刻板印象。

But conservatism isn't about feeling people's pain, it's about curing it.

但保守主义并不是要感受人们的痛苦，而是要治愈它。

And the results since the first great conservative victory in 1980 speak for themselves: millions of new jobs, new homes, and new businesses created thanks to conservative economic reforms; millions of families intact and enriched by the move from welfare to work; hundreds of millions of people around the world liberated by a conservative foreign policy's victory over Soviet communism; and more than 50 million Iraqis and Afghanis liberated from tyranny since September the 11th, 2001.

自 1980 年保守派取得第一次伟大胜利以来所取得的成果不言自明：保守派经济改革创造了数以百万计的新就业机会、新住房和新企业；数以百万计的家庭因从福利转向工作而完好无损并富裕起来；全世界数亿人民因保守外交政策战胜苏联共产主义而获得解放；自2001年9月11日以来，超过5000万伊拉克人和阿富汗人从暴政中解放出来。

To all the critics of the supposedly mean-spirited conservative policies that brought about these results, I say only this: Compassionate is as compassionate does.

对于所有批评所谓卑鄙保守政策导致这些结果的人，我只想说：富有同情心就是富有同情心。

Now, when I say that word, Mr. Speaker, "compassionate," my thoughts turn to -- to one person: my wife, Christine.

现在，议长先生，当我说“富有同情心”这个词时，我的思绪转向一个人：我的妻子克里斯汀。

Twelve years ago, Christine became what's called a court-appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children, and soon thereafter, we became foster parents ourselves to three such children.

十二年前，克里斯汀成为所谓的法庭指定的受虐待和忽视儿童的特别倡导者，此后不久，我们自己就成为了三个这样的孩子的养父母。

Over the last 10 years, I have spent more time and energy on the plight and needs of abused and neglected children than on any other single issue.

在过去的十年里，我在受虐待和被忽视的儿童的困境和需求上花费的时间和精力比在任何其他单一问题上花费的时间和精力都多。

It's an issue that transcends politics, let alone partisanship, and one that will continue to command a disproportionate amount of my time as a private citizen.

这是一个超越政治的问题，更不用说党派之争了，而且作为一个普通公民，这个问题将继续占用我大量的时间。

I am concerned, however, about whether it will receive the attention it deserves here in Washington, D.C. And because this is the last time I may ever command the attention of the House and of the national media, I will make one more plea before I go.

然而，我担心它是否会在华盛顿特区受到应有的关注。而且因为这是我最后一次引起众议院和国家媒体的关注，所以在我离开之前我将再次提出请求。

The catastrophe of America's child welfare and foster care systems is a national outrage, a government failure, and a bipartisan embarrassment.

美国儿童福利和寄养制度的灾难是全国性的愤怒、政府的失败和两党的尴尬。

Congresses, administrations, governors and state legislatures of every party and ideological bent for almost 100 years have thrown abused and neglected children into a vicious cycle of violence, fear, and instability.

近100年来，各个党派和意识形态倾向的国会、政府、州长和州立法机构使受虐待和忽视的儿童陷入了暴力、恐惧和不稳定的恶性循环。

Children who have already been beaten and betrayed by the people supposed to love them the most are routinely tossed from one temporary placement to another, often 10 to 20 times during their most formative, vulnerable years.

那些已经被本应最爱他们的人殴打和背叛的孩子，通常会被从一个临时安置点扔到另一个临时安置点，在他们最成长、最脆弱的时期，通常会被扔到另一个临时安置点 10 到 20 次。

The system we have created still includes perverse economic incentives that deny children permanent homes, and in some states, still lacks meaningful child monitoring or even background checks for prospective foster parents.

我们创建的系统仍然包括不正当的经济激励措施，剥夺儿童永久的居所，并且在一些州，仍然缺乏有意义的儿童监控，甚至缺乏对未来养父母的背景调查。

The courts charged with overseeing each case are overrun with unrelated duties, so the thankless, unexciting work of looking after foster kids is set -- just set aside in favor of more glamorous cases on the docket.

负责监督每起案件的法院都被不相关的职责压得喘不过气来，因此，照顾寄养孩子的吃力不讨好、乏味的工作就这样安排好了——只是搁置起来，以支持待审案件中更有吸引力的案件。

Bureaucracies layered one on top of another consign these children to the perdition of government foster care for years at a time and with little or no effort made to finding them permanent, loving, forever families.

官僚机构一层层地把这些孩子交给政府寄养多年，很少或根本没有努力为他们找到永久的、充满爱的、永远的家庭。

Instead, every few months, these children throw their despair and distrust into a black plastic trash bag along with their few belongings and head off to the next place, the next letdown.

相反，每隔几个月，这些孩子就会把绝望和不信任连同他们为数不多的物品一起扔进黑色塑料垃圾袋，然后前往下一个地方，下一个令人失望的地方。

They are abused and neglected long before they ever reach our abusive and neglectful foster care system, and once in, things often only get worse.

他们早在到达我们虐待和忽视的寄养系统之前就受到虐待和忽视，一旦进入，事情往往只会变得更糟。

Children are dying, Mr. Speaker, inside and out, and it's our fault.

议长先生，孩子们从里到外都在死去，这是我们的错。

There is legislation now waiting in the Senate to help expedite interstate placement of foster children and within its narrow focus this bill will do some good on the margins of some cases.

目前参议院正在等待一项立法，以帮助加快跨州寄养儿童的安置，并且在其狭隘的关注范围内，该法案将在某些案件的边缘发挥一些作用。

And I'm proud of what little I have been able to accomplish for these children over the years, but in truth I have only moved mole hills, not mountains.

我为这些年来我为这些孩子们所做的一点点努力感到自豪，但事实上，我只是移走了鼹鼠山，而不是山脉。

So I leave you today not by asking that someone take up this cause, but by asking that all of you do; that you listen to the stories of these children and -- and the stories that they tell and -- and study the broken system we have created for them, and help them.

因此，我今天离开你们并不是要求有人承担起这项事业，而是要求你们所有人都这样做；你要倾听这些孩子的故事，以及他们讲述的故事，研究我们为他们创建的破碎系统，并帮助他们。

For God's sake, help them.

看在上帝的份上，帮助他们吧。

I ask this of Republicans and Democrats alike; not in the name of bipartisanship, but in the name of principle.

我向共和党人和民主党人提出同样的问题；不是以两党合作的名义，而是以原则的名义。

Which brings me back, Mr. Speaker, to those memorials and those statues.

议长先生，这让我想起那些纪念碑和雕像。

The great Americans honored here in bronze and marble, the heroes of our history and the ghosts of these halls, were not made great because of what they were, but because of what they did.

伟大的美国人在这里受到青铜和大理石的尊敬，他们是我们历史上的英雄和这些大厅里的幽灵，他们之所以伟大，并不是因为他们的身份，而是因为他们的所作所为。

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln have almost nothing in common with Junipero Serra and Jack Swigert, except the choice they each made: to live, to fight, and even to die in the service of freedom.

乔治·华盛顿和亚伯拉罕·林肯与朱尼佩罗·塞拉和杰克·斯威格特几乎没有任何共同之处，除了他们各自做出的选择：为自由而生、战斗，甚至死亡。

We honor men with monuments and -- and not because of their greatness or even simply because of their service, but because of their refusal even in the face of danger or death to ever compromise the principles they served.

我们用纪念碑向人们致敬——并不是因为他们的伟大，甚至不是因为他们的服务，而是因为他们即使面对危险或死亡也拒绝妥协他们所服务的原则。

Washington's obelisk still stands watch because democracy will always need a sentry.

华盛顿的方尖碑仍然站在那里，因为民主总是需要哨兵。

Jefferson's words will still ring because liberty will always need a voice.

杰斐逊的话仍然会响起，因为自由永远需要声音。

And Lincoln's left hand still stays clenched because tyranny will always need an enemy.

林肯的左手仍然紧握，因为暴政永远需要敌人。

And we are still here, Mr. Speaker, as a House and as a nation because the torch of freedom cannot carry itself.

议长先生，作为众议院和国家，我们仍然在这里，因为自由的火炬无法自行传递。

Here on this floor, I have caught and thrown spears of every sort.

在这层楼，我曾接住并投掷过各种长矛。

Over the course of 22 years, I've probably worked with and against almost everyone in this chamber at least once.

在 22 年的时间里，我可能至少与这个会议厅里的几乎每个人合作过一次或反对过一次。

I have scraped and clawed for every vote, every amendment, for every word of every bill that I believed in my heart would protect human freedom and defend human dignity.

我竭力争取每一张选票、每一项修正案、每一项法案的每一个字，我内心相信这些将保护人类自由和捍卫人类尊严。

I have done so at all times honorably and honestly, Mr. Speaker, as God is my witness and history is my judge.

议长先生，我一直都是光荣而诚实地这样做的，因为上帝是我的见证人，历史是我的法官。

And if given the chance to do it all again, there's only one thing I would change: I would fight even harder.

如果有机会重来一次，我只会改变一件事：我会更加努力地奋斗。

This place has given me so many memories, so much life.

这个地方给了我很多回忆，很多生活。

For 22 years, I have served as best I knew how.

22 年来，我一直尽我所能地服务。

In this House, I found my life's calling and my soul's savior.

在这座房子里，我找到了我生命的召唤和我灵魂的救世主。

Eight years ago, I witnessed evil in -- in the murder of two Capitol Hill police officers, one just outside my office and another, a very dear friend, on my protection detail inside my office itself.

八年前，我亲眼目睹了两名国会山警察被谋杀的邪恶事件，其中一名就在我的办公室外，另一名是一位非常亲爱的朋友，在我办公室内的保护人员中被谋杀。

And five years ago, I witnessed unparalleled courage as their surviving comrades stood at their post inside this building during the frantic evacuation on 9/11.

五年前，在9/11的疯狂疏散中，我亲眼目睹了他们幸存的战友们在这座大楼内坚守岗位时所表现出的无与伦比的勇气。

They are around us every day, the Capitol police force, members --.

他们每天都在我们身边，国会大厦警察部队，成员们——。

I tell you, those police officers are members and staffs own personal army of guardian angels.

我告诉你，那些警察是他们自己的守护天使军队的成员和工作人员。

They are the bravest men and women serving under this dome and I offer them now one more time my great respect and admiration.

他们是在这个圆顶下服役的最勇敢的男男女女，我现在再次向他们致以崇高的敬意和钦佩。

Because believe it or not, Mr. Speaker, this is a happy day for me, though admittedly perhaps not as happy as it is for some of our old friends on the other side of the aisle.

因为不管你相信与否，议长先生，这对我来说是一个快乐的一天，尽管不可否认，这可能不如我们在过道另一边的一些老朋友那么快乐。

But nothing, not this retirement, not tough losses or old wounds can detract from the joy that I feel and the blessings I offer to this House and its members.

但没有什么，无论是这次退休，还是重大损失或旧伤，都不能减损我所感受到的喜悦以及我向众议院及其成员提供的祝福。

I say goodbye today, Mr. Speaker, with few regrets, no doubts.

今天我告别了，议长先生，没有什么遗憾，也没有任何疑问。

And so with love and gratitude for friend and foe alike, patriots all, I yield back the floor of our beloved House and I exit as always, stage right.

因此，怀着对朋友和敌人、所有爱国者的爱和感激之情，我让出我们心爱的众议院的地板，然后像往常一样从舞台右侧退出。

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American Rhetoric.

美国修辞学。

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Eidenmuller.

艾登米勒。