Bob Inglis: American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how
Bon Inglis: Cómo las políticas bipartidistas estadounidenses pueden salvarse
Former United States Congressman Bob Inglis promotes free enterprise action on climate change. Full bio
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miembros del Congreso
depending on the season.
dependiéndo de la estación.
to people you don't even know
de Washington DC
forman parte del Congreso,
the people of your state.
ciudadanos de su estado.
member of Congress.
conservador del Congreso.
in Boston, Massachusetts,
Boston, Massachusetts,
a powerful imagination, all right?
member of Congress.
del Congreso.
del libre mercado,
farewell address over and over,
Ronald Reagan una y otra vez,
the shining city on the hill,
la ciudad brillante en la colina
to breathe free.
los deseos de libertad.
of him telling Mr. Gorbachev
hablando con Gorbachov
John F. Kennedy
el presidente John F. Kennedy
un lugar extraordinario.
his speech at Rice University,
en la Universidad Rice,
that he admits in that speech --
él admite en su discurso,
American exceptionalism --
de pura esencia estadounidense,
needed for the spacecraft
necesarios para la nave espacial
before the decade is out.
de que la década termine.
can be fulfilled
esta nación pueden cumplirse
the affect that he so embodied.
que él tanto ha encarnado.
in the people they represent.
a la que representan.
conservador del Congreso,
in the precautionary principle.
and human-caused,
es un hecho, provocado por los humanos
movimiento de las naves Spuntik.
the greatness of your nation
la grandeza de su nación
movimiento Sputnik.
conservador del Congreso
is that it works for everyone,
conviene a todo el mundo,
la derecha alternativa.
with your brand, your party, your legacy.
ni en su partido, ni en su legado.
conservadores del Congreso.
to protect the lives of the unborn,
la vida de aquellos que aún no han nacido,
the bedroom of consenting adults
de los adultos que consienten
for the government to be.
donde estar el gobierno.
conservador del Congreso.
de proteger la libertad,
that he and other framers had
con la que él y otros legisladores
deliberative governing process --
gobernador lento y deliberado,
governing process.
de esencia convervadora.
than they could ever imagine.
jamás pudieran imaginar.
that those who play with fire
que juegan con fuego
good building tools.
son buenas herramientas.
and burn up but they can't build up.
pero no para contruir.
the institutions and the communities
instituciones y las comunidades,
and prosperous country.
y prosperar un país.
county party convention.
aristócrata del partido.
to be the grand opportunity party,
para su partido una oportunidad
to hear from you some old saw
socialist took over in the White House
que no era estadounidense,
that you're OK with insults,
se sientes bien con los insultos,
''prisión preventiva",
that 140 characters can muster.
que 140 individuos pueden reunir.
conservador del Congreso.
look to some good old days
sólo recuerdan los tiempos de gloria,
the last century of growth,
el último periodo de crecimiento,
more abundant fuels await us,
mejores, más limpias y abundantes
can lead the world to more energy,
subministrar más energía al mundo,
conservador del Congreso.
pine for the '50s and the '60s
añoran los 50 y los 60
the good old days.
fueron tiempos de gloria.
was on fire back then.
el río Cuyahoga estaba en llamas.
because of the soot in the air.
de las calles debido al humeante aire.
you weren't likely to fight for long.
no luchaban por mucho tiempo.
conservador del Congreso
John F. Kennedy en Rice,
quedarnos donde estamos
que les dice que
was not built by those who waited
por aquellos que esperaban,
the power of free enterprise
el poder que la libre empresa
como los del cambio climático.
en las colinas
to die a figurative death
su muerte, en sentido figurado,
of your time in Washington,
al final de su trabajo en Washington,
this plaque off the door.
of knowing that you stood for nothing,
trabajaron para nada,
to where they were already going
pusilánime hacia donde ellos ya iban
them to a better place?
hacia un lugar mejor?
to lose your seat in Congress,
a perder su silla en el Congreso,
reason to be there.
razones por las que estar ahí.
that we still have moon shots in us.
aún poseemos naves espaciales.
party convention,
del partido republicano,
can solve climate change."
ayudar al cambio climático.''
would say to tax pollution
implantaría la ecotasa
estarían de acuerdo
that we can bring America together
podemos ofrecerle a EE. UU.
and to lead the world.
y para capitanear el mundo.
can do these things.
puedo conseguirlo.
must stop the dividing,
que dejar de fraccionar
antes de que sea demasiado tarde.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Bob Inglis - Politician, energy optimistFormer United States Congressman Bob Inglis promotes free enterprise action on climate change.
Why you should listen
Bob Inglis launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (E&EI) at George Mason University in July 2012 and serves as executive director. For his work on climate change, Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film Merchants of Doubt and in the Showtime series "Years of Living Dangerously."
Inglis was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012 and a Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014.
Inglis was elected to the United States Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993-1998. In 2004, he was re-elected to Congress and served until losing re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary of 2010.
Inglis grew up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, went to Duke University for college, met and married his college sweetheart, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and practiced commercial real estate law in Greenville, South Carolina, before and between his years in Congress. Bob and Mary Anne Inglis have five adult children and live on a small farm in northern Greenville County, South Carolina.
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