1. During the discussion of rock singing verses at last month′s stockholders′ meeting, Levin asserted that "music is not the cause of society′s ills" and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to communicate with students.

在-上個月的股東大會上關(guān)于搖滾歌詞的討論中，萊文宣稱說："音樂不是社會問題的原因"，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。他的兒子是紐約州布朗克斯的一個教師，并用說唱音樂與學(xué)生們進(jìn)行溝通。

2. "The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column′, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be..."

　　對任何一個民主社會的考驗，"他在《華爾街雜志》的一個專欄文章中寫到，"不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達(dá)，而在于這個社會是否能給予思考和表達(dá)的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結(jié)果是多么的富有爭議或令人不快…"