I understand, argumentatively and politically, why you want to just say, look, it's fine for adults to do basically anything they want, but kids, the children are our future.

我理解，从辩论和政治角度来看，你为何会说， 瞧，成年人基本上么都可以，但孩子们，他们是我们未来。 我们必须在那里采取截然法。

And I sat there and I started to prepare my case to just argumentatively destroy him, to take him apart, and win this argument but I caught myself, thank God.

我坐在那里，开始准备我案子，通过辩论来摧毁他，把他拆散，并赢得这场辩论，但我抓住了自己，感谢上帝。