Crisis conditions can liberate a gifted leader from the accumulated constraints of vested interests and bureaucratic inertia that normally inhibit action in the American system. Bill Clinton, caught up in the complacent 1990’s, is said to have envied Franklin Roosevelt’s crisis conditions of the 1930’s.
危机环境可以将天赋异禀的领袖从美国制度的顽疾——既得利益和官僚惰性的重重约束中解放出来。20世纪90年代踌躇满志的克林顿据说相当嫉妒富兰克林·罗斯福可以遇到20世纪30年代的危机环境。