Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic. In other words -- what is a meritocratic society? A meritocratic society is one in which, if you've got talent and energy and skill, you will get to the top, nothing should hold you back. It's a beautiful idea.
现在，无论是左倾还是右倾的政治人物，都同意“功绩主义”是个好事。我们应该尽力让我们的社会崇尚“功绩主义”，换句话说，一个崇尚“功绩主义”的社会是什么样的呢？一个崇尚功绩主义的社会相信，如果你有才能、精力和技术，你就会飞黄腾达，没有什么能阻止你，这是个美好的想法。
Silence in a picture book can be louder than words.
膨胀是一个非常简单的想法，但它解释了很多事情。
The art of disputation is the art of making the worse appear the better reason.
释义：所谓英雄，必须胸怀远大志向，腹有良谋，有包含宇宙的智慧，吞吐天地的气概。
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Now I want to take this opportunity to give you some advice. Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair, you will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve, and that are not always warranted, but you have to put your head down, and FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Never ever ever give up, things will work out just fine. Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the media. No politician in history, and I say this is great surety, has been treated worse, more unfairly. You can't let them get you down, you can't let the critics, and the naysayers get in the way of your dream. I guess that's why I won, thank you. I guess that's why we won. Adversity makes you stronger, don't give in, don't back down, and never stop doing what you know is right. Nothing worth doing, ever ever ever came easy, and the more righteous you fight, the more opposition that you will face. I've accomplished a tremendous amount, in a very short time as president.
我努力工作，我做得很好，我会享受自己。我不会让你限制我。
I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.
译文：彻底领悟之后，便能在这茫茫虚空中，明辨是非。
成功是一段旅程，而不是目的地。