Bob Inglis: American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how
Bob Inglis: A política bipartidária americana pode ser salva. Veja como.
Former United States Congressman Bob Inglis promotes free enterprise action on climate change. Full bio
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depending on the season.
dependendo da estação.
talvez milhares de vezes,
to people you don't even know
em Washington, DC.
the people of your state.
member of Congress.
um congressista conservador.
in Boston, Massachusetts,
em Boston, Massachusetts,
a powerful imagination, all right?
member of Congress.
farewell address over and over,
de Ronald Reagan repetidas vezes,
the shining city on the hill,
sobre "a cidade radiante na colina"
to breathe free.
os que anseiam por liberdade.
of him telling Mr. Gorbachev
dele dizendo ao sr. Gorbachev
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
são um lugar excepcional.
his speech at Rice University,
ao discurso dele na Universidade Rice,
that he admits in that speech --
por ele admitir naquele discurso,
American exceptionalism --
de puro excepcionalismo norte-americano,
needed for the spacecraft
necessários para a espaçonave
before the decade is out.
can be fulfilled
só podem ser cumpridas,
the affect that he so embodied.
o afeto que ele representava.
in the people they represent.
no povo que representam.
in the precautionary principle.
and human-caused,
é real e é causada pelo homem
the greatness of your nation
is that it works for everyone,
é que ele funciona para todos,
com a direita alternativa.
with your brand, your party, your legacy.
com a sua marca, seu partido, seu legado.
to protect the lives of the unborn,
para defender a vida dos nascituros,
the bedroom of consenting adults
for the government to be.
para o governo estar.
a liberdade, nem mesmo a sua própria.
that he and other framers had
que ele e os outros patriarcas tiveram
deliberative governing process --
lento e deliberativo de governar;
governing process.
conservador de governo.
than they could ever imagine.
do que eles poderiam imaginar.
do nacionalismo populista,
that those who play with fire
que aqueles que brincam com fogo
good building tools.
boas ferramentas de construção.
and burn up but they can't build up.
e queimar, mas são incapazes de construir.
the institutions and the communities
as instituições e as comunidades
and prosperous country.
estável e próspero.
county party convention.
municipal do partido.
to be the grand opportunity party,
seja o partido das grandes oportunidades,
to hear from you some old saw
alguma velha história,
socialist took over in the White House
não americano assumiu a Casa Branca
that you're OK with insults,
que você concorda com insultos,
com pronunciamentos políticos
that 140 characters can muster.
que 140 caracteres podem expressar.
look to some good old days
têm saudades dos velhos tempos,
the last century of growth,
o último século de crescimento,
more abundant fuels await us,
mais limpos e abundantes nos aguardam,
can lead the world to more energy,
poderá levar o mundo a mais energia,
pine for the '50s and the '60s
sentem nostalgia pelos anos 50 e 60,
the good old days.
esses eram os bons tempos.
was on fire back then.
pegava fogo naquela época.
because of the soot in the air.
por causa da fuligem no ar.
you weren't likely to fight for long.
sua luta não duraria muito tempo.
ficar um pouco mais onde estamos,
was not built by those who waited
não foi construído pelos que aguardaram
the power of free enterprise
o poder da livre iniciativa,
filhos dos Estados Unidos
to die a figurative death
que morra uma morte metafórica
of your time in Washington,
do seu mandato em Washington,
this plaque off the door.
of knowing that you stood for nothing,
de saber que você não defendeu nada,
to where they were already going
medrosas aonde elas já estavam indo,
them to a better place?
a um lugar melhor?
to lose your seat in Congress,
a perder seu emprego no congresso,
reason to be there.
razão para você estar lá.
that we still have moon shots in us.
que ainda temos "Projetos Lunares".
party convention,
can solve climate change."
pode solucionar a mudança climática".
would say to tax pollution
diria para taxar a poluição,
that we can bring America together
de que podemos unir os EUA,,
and to lead the world.
can do these things.
pode fazer essas coisas.
must stop the dividing,
têm de parar de dividir,
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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