第一篇：克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝演講

克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝演講

President Clinton“s Remarks at Library Dedication

11月18日，美國第12個總統圖書館——克林頓圖書館正式向公眾開放，克林頓政府要員、前總統老布什和現任總統小布什、演藝明星等人前往捧場，出席總人數估計達到了3萬人。該圖書館名為威廉·杰斐遜·克林頓總統中心，座落在美國前總統克林頓的家鄉美

國中南部阿肯色州的小石城。

按照美國政府的傳統，軍樂團奏起《向總統致敬》，克林頓在老布什、小布什和前總統卡特的陪同下走上臺。早些時候他們的夫人已經上臺。由于下著大雨，每人都撐著一把傘。November 18, 2004 PRESIDENT Clinton:

(Applause)Well, ladies and gentlemen, if my beloved mother were here, she would remind me that rain is liquid sunshine and that I shouldn”t complain about this because the ground probably needs it and somebody is benefiting from it.Mr.President and Mrs.Bush, President and Mrs.Carter, President and Mrs.Bush, members of the Eisenhower, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy and Carter families;to the vast number of members of Congress and former members of Congress here--I don“t know where they are because you”re all in ponchos--(cheers)--but there they are;there“s a huge group from Congress, and the president sent four planes down and I thank him for that;to all the guests from other countries;and my fellow Americans--welcome to my rainy library dedication.(Laughter)

Thank you Skip Rutherford and all those on my staff and the volunteers from Arkansas and across America who work so hard to make this event just perfect--(he laughs)--and except for one thing, it is.I thank the previous speakers and those who have sung and entertained.Mr.President, I can”t thank you enough for your generous words and for coming to the opening at all.I mean, after all, you just delayed your own library opening by four years.(Laughter.)I congratulate you on your election, and I wish you Godspeed, especially in a new and more hopeful time for peace in the Middle East.I remember the first time I ever heard George W.Bush give a speech in Iowa, and I called a friend of mine and I said: “My God, that guy can beat us.He is a good politician.” He has been very kind and generous to my family, and I thank him for that.Today we“re all red, white and blue.I thank former President Bush and Mrs.Bush for coming and for their service to our nation.President Bush, I loved all that stuff you said.But I want to thank you for something seriously.In 1989, after I had been governor for a long time, you were the president who finally called us together and asked us to develop national education goals for America so that all our children could get a good education.It was the beginning of a serious reform effort, which I tried to carry through and which I know President Bush has tried to push.So thank you for doing that and for giving me the opportunity to work with you.Thank you President and Mrs.Carter for all you did in the White House and all you”ve done in the years since to make the world more just and peaceful.John Quincy Adams once said, “There is nothing in life so pathetic as a former president.” Well, he turned out to be wrong because of his own service, and President Carter has proved that nothing could be further from the truth.(Applause)

He just told you we met 30 years ago when he was trying to help me.He didn“t tell you that, less than a year later and less than a mile from here, Jimmy Carter asked Hillary and me to join in his campaign for the presidency.We did, and as you can see from this day, it was the beginning of quite a ride.I recently spoke with President Ford, who, at 91, is unable to come and--with his extraordinary wife, Betty.But they still are strong.Yesterday I received a wonderful letter from Nancy Reagan, who remains in our thoughts and prayers.I thank the Fords and Nancy and the late President Reagan for their service to our country.I want to thank all the vast numbers of Congress and former members who are here who served with me.I couldn”t have done most of the good things we did without “em, and they”re not responsible for any of the mistakes I made.I can“t see through all the umbrellas and all the ponchos or whatever you call those plastic things that make you all look so beautiful--(laughter)--but I”m pretty sure Senator Kerry“s out there.And if he is, I want to thank him and I”m glad he“s back on the job.(Applause)

I want to thank the people of my beloved home state for your support, for your love, your friendship, the trust, the sacrifices you so willingly made when we worked together here and when you carried me to the White House.I thank the friends of a lifetime who also made indispensable contributions.I”ve said a lot of times I may be the only guy that ever got elected president because of his personal friends.I thank my pastor, Rex Horne, and all the other ministers here who have taught me, prayed with me, and counseled me over the years.I thank God for my family and Hillary“s family.A lot of them are here today, and I thank you for making this whole long trip.Like I said, I do wish my mother were here.She would have enjoyed seeing all of you, even in the rain, and I promise you--(he laughs)--you would have enjoyed seeing her.Most of all, I want to thank Hillary and Chelsea.Now Hillary”s a senator and she has all the power in our family, but she“s proving what I always said.She has the best combination of mind and heart, conviction and compassion I”ve ever encountered, though I must say Chelsea is giving her mother a good run.Chelsea, your life and our love for you gave meaning to our public service.They made the presidency the second-most important job I ever had.I love you both so much.Thank you.And let me lastly thank the people who have contributed to and built this library: the School of Public Service and the foundation, my staff, my former staff, the board, the architects, the exhibit designers, the landscapers, the contractors, the 1,500 people who put this building up, the city and state officials who supported it.I thank especially the architects, Jim Polshek and Richard Olcott;Ralph Applebaum for the wonderful exhibits;and my longtime friend, Bill Clark, whose company built this building.I also want to say that I thank those of you who are continuing to help in the work of the library and the foundation.This library tells the story of America at the end of the 20th century, of a dramatically different time in the way we worked and lived.We moved out of the Cold War into an age of interdependence with new possibilities and new dangers.We moved out of an information--I mean, an industrial economy into an information-age economy.We moved out of a period when we were obsessed with overcoming the legacy of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans to a point where we were challenged to deal with an explosion of diversity, of people from all races and ethnic groups and religions from around the world, and we had to change the role of government to deal with that.That whole story is here, in 80 million documents, 21 million e-mails--two of them mine--(laughter)--2 million photographs, and 80,000 artifacts.In the interests of openness and public access, we are asking more than 100,000 of these documents to be opened early before the law requires.I thank those who are working on the Clinton School of Public Service, because I want more young people to go into public service.I thank those who are working in Harlem and here on my foundation or who visit us on the Internet, as Hillary said, at clintonfoundation.org, who help us to promote religious and racial reconciliation, to advance citizen service, to promote economic empowerment for poor people in poor communities, and to continue the fight against AIDS.In three years in Africa, the Caribbean, India and China, we have succeeded in cutting the price of the testing equipment and generic drugs by 70 percent, and we hope by 2006, and expect, to serve over 2 million people with medicine who were not getting it on the day I left office.Now this library, of course, is primarily about my presidency.I want to say a special word of thanks to Al Gore and to Tipper for the indispensable contribution that they made.And I told Al today that this library won an international environmental award, even though it“s got a lot of glass.Because of solar panels and a lot of other improvements, we cut the energy usage here by 34 percent.So Al, thanks for the inspiration, and I”m still trying to measure up to the challenge you set for me so long ago.I believe the job of a president is to understand and explain the time in which he serves, to set forth a vision of where we need to go and a strategy of how to get there, and then to pursue it with all his mind and heart--bending only in the face of error or new circumstances and the crises which are unforeseen, a problem that affects all of us.When I became president the world was a new and very different place, as I said.And I thought about how we ought to confront it.America has two great dominant strands of political thought;we“re represented up here on this stage: conservatism, which at its very best draws lines that should not be crossed;and progressivism, which at its very best breaks down barriers that are no longer needed or should never have been erected in the first place.It seemed to me that in 1992 we needed to do both to prepare America for the 21st century--to be more conservative in things like erasing the deficit and paying down the debt, and preventing crime and punishing criminals, and protecting and supporting families, and enforcing things like child support laws, and reforming the military to meet the new challenges of the 21st century.And we needed to be more progressive in creating good jobs, reducing poverty, increasing the quality of public education, opening the doors of college to all, increasing access to health care, investing more in science and technology, and building new alliances with our former adversaries, and working for peace across the world and peace in America, across all the lines that divide us.Now when I proposed to do both, we said that all of them were consistent with the great American values of opportunity, responsibility and community.We labeled the approach ”New Democrat.“ It then became known as ”the Third Way.“ It was--as it was embraced by progressive parties across the world.But I like the slogan we had way back in 1992, ”putting people first,“ because in the end, I always kept score by a simple measure: Were ordinary people better off when I stopped than when I started?

I grew up in the pre-television age, in a family of uneducated but smart, hard-working, caring storytellers.They taught me that everyone has a story.And that made politics intensely personal to me.It was about giving people better stories.That”s why I asked those six people to talk here today.When I think of the Family Leave Law, I think of that good man who brought his dying daughter to see me in the White House on a Sunday morning, and who grabbed me as I walked away and said, “The time I got to take off from work was the most important time in my life.”

I think of people like that fine woman who worked herself out of welfare and now runs her own business.I remember the first woman I ever talked to who went from welfare to work.I said, “What”s the best thing about it?“ She said, ”When my boy goes to school and they say, “What does your mama do for a living,” he can give an answer.“ Those are the things that make politics real to me, at home and around the world.The record is all in there--what we did at home, what we did abroad.I thank Bono for singing about Northern Ireland and President Bush for mentioning the Balkans.There were many other places we tried to help.But the record is there.Even where we fell short, we pushed forward.And what I want to say is, if you think of the biggest disappointment around the world to me, I tried so hard for peace in the Middle East.I thank Shimon Peres and the children of Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak for being here today, and the current foreign minister of Israel for being here today.I did all I could.But when we had seven years of progress toward peace, there was one whole year when, for the first time in the history of the state of Israel, not one person died of a terrorist attack, when the Palestinians began to believe they could have a shared future.And so, Mr.President, again, I say: I hope you get to cross over into the promised land of Middle East peace.We have a good opportunity, and we are all praying for you.(Applause)

Finally, let me say this.Quite apart from all the details, the thing I want most is for people who come to this library, whether they”re Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives, to see that public service is noble and important, that the choices and decisions leaders make affect the lives of millions of Americans and people all across the world.I want young people to want to see not only what I did with my life, but to see what they could do with their lives.Because this is mostly the story of what we, the people, can do when we work together.Yes, this library is the symbol of a bridge, a bridge to the 21st century.It“s been called one of the great achievements of the new age, and a British magazine said it looked like a glorified house trailer.And I thought, well, that”s about me, you know? I“m a little red and a little blue.(Laughter)

What it is to me is the symbol of not only what I tried to do but what I want to do with the rest of my life--building bridges from yesterday to tomorrow, building bridges across racial and religious and ethnic and income and political divides.Building bridges.I believe our mission in this new century is clear.For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world.We can”t escape each other.And while we have to fight our enemies, we can“t possibly kill, jail or occupy all of them.Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community and an American community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.What are those values? And I want to say this.This is important.I don”t want to be too political here, but it bothers me when America gets as divided as it was.I once said to a friend of mine, about three days before the election--I heard all these terrible things--I said, “You know, am I the only person in the entire United States of America who likes both George W.Bush and John Kerry, who believes they”re both good people, who believes they both love our country and they just see the world differently?“

What should our shared values be? Everybody counts.Everybody deserves a chance.Everybody”s got a responsibility to fulfill.We all do better when we work together.Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.So I tell you we can continue building our bridge to tomorrow.It will require some red American line-drawing and some blue American barrier-breaking, but we can do it together.Thank you and God bless you.(Applause)

第二篇：克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝演講

克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝演講

名人演講稿

PRESIDENTClinton:

(Alause)Well,ladiesandgentlemen,ifmybelovedmotherwerehere,shewouldremindmethatrainisliquidsuhineandthatIshouldn'tcomplainaboutthisbecausethegroundprobablyneedsitandsomebodyisbenefitingfromit.

Mr.PresidentandMrs.Bush,PresidentandMrs.Carter,PresidentandMrs.Bush,membersoftheEisen

hower,Nixon,Johon,KeedyandCarterfamilietothevastnumberofmembersofCongreandformermembersofCongrehere--Idon'tknowwheretheyarebecauseyou'reallinponchos--(cheers)--buttheretheyare;there'sahugegroupfromCongre,andthepresidentsentfourplanesdownandIthankhimforthat;toalltheguestsfromothercountrieandmyfellowAmerica--welcometomyrainylibrarydedication.

(Laughter)

ThankyouSkipRutherfordandallthoseonmystaffandthevolunteersfromArkaasandacroAmericawhoworksohardtomakethiseventjustperfect--(helaughs)--andexceptforonething,itis.

Ithankthepreviouseakersandthosewhohavesungandentertained.

Mr.President,Ican'tthankyouenoughforyourgenerouswordsandforcomingtotheopeningatall.Imean,afterall,youjustdelayedyourownlibraryopeningbyfouryears.(Laughter.)Icongratulateyouonyourelection,andIwishyouGodeed,eeciallyinanewandmorehopefultimeforpeaceintheMiddleEast.

IrememberthefirsttimeIeverheardGeorgeW.BushgiveaeechinIowa,andIcalledafriendofmineandIsaid:“MyGod,thatguycanbeatus.Heisagoodpolitician.”Hehasbeenverykindandgeneroustomyfamily,andIthankhimforthat.

Todaywe'reallred,whiteandblue.

IthankformerPresidentBushandMrs.Bushforcomingandfortheirservicetoournation.PresidentBush,Ilovedallthatstuffyousaid.ButIwanttothankyouforsomethingseriously.In1989,afterIhadbeengovernorforalongtime,youwerethepresidentwhofinallycalledustogetherandaskedustodevelopnationaleducationgoalsforAmericasothatallourchildrencouldgetagoodeducation.Itwasthebegiingofaseriousreformeffort,whichItriedtocarrythroughandwhichIknowPresidentBushhastriedtopush.Sothankyoufordoingthatandforgivingmetheoortunitytoworkwithyou.

ThankyouPresidentandMrs.CarterforallyoudidintheWhiteHouseandallyou'vedoneintheyearssincetomaketheworldmorejustandpeaceful.JohnQuincyAdamsoncesaid,“Thereisnothinginlifesopatheticasaformerpresident.”Well,heturnedouttobewrongbecauseofhisownservice,an

dPresidentCarterhasprovedthatnothingcouldbefurtherfromthetruth.

(Alause)

Hejusttoldyouwemet30yearsagowhenhewastryingtohelpme.Hedidn'ttellyouthat,lethanayearlaterandlethanamilefromhere,JimmyCarteraskedHillaryandmetojoininhiscampaignforthepresidency.Wedid,andasyoucanseefromthisday,itwasthebegiingofquitearide.

Irecentlyokewi

thPresidentFord,who,at91,isunabletocomeand--withhisextraordinarywife,Betty.Buttheystillarestrong.YesterdayIreceivedawonderfulletterfromNancyReagan,whoremaiinourthoughtsandprayers.IthanktheFordsandNancyandthelatePresidentReaganfortheirservicetoourcountry.

IwanttothankallthevastnumbersofCongreandformermemberswhoareherewhoservedwithme.Icouldn'thavedonemostofthegoodthingswedidwithout'em,andthey'renotreoibleforanyofthemistakesImade.

Ican'tseethroughalltheumbrellasandalltheponchosorwhateveryoucallthoseplasticthingsthatmakeyoualllooksobeautiful--(laughter)--butI'mprettysureSenatorKerry'soutthere.Andifheis,IwanttothankhimandI'mgladhe'sbackonthejob.

(Alause)

Iwanttothankthepeopleofmybelovedhomestateforyoursuort,foryourlove,yourfriendship,thetrust,thesacrificesyousowillinglymadewhenweworkedtogetherhereandwhenyoucarriedmetotheWhiteHouse.

Ithankthefriendsofalifetimewhoalsomadeindieablecontributio.I'vesaidalotoftimesImaybetheonlyguythatevergotelectedpresidentbecauseofhispersonalfriends.

Ithankmypastor,RexHorne,andalltheotherministersherewhohavetaughtme,prayedwithme,andcoueledmeovertheyears.

IthankGodformyfamilyandHillary'sfamily.Alotofthemareheretoday,andIthankyouformakingthiswholelongtrip.

LikeIsaid,Idowishmymotherwerehere.Shewouldhaveenjoyedseeingallofyou,evenintherain,andIpromiseyou--(helaughs)--youwouldhaveenjoyedseeingher.

Mostofall,IwanttothankHillaryandChelsea.NowHillary'sasenatorandshehasallthepowerinourfamily,butshe'sprovingwhatIalwayssaid.Shehasthebestcombinationofmindandheart,convictionandcompaionI'veeverencountered,thoughImustsayChelseaisgivinghermotheragoodrun.Chelsea,yourlifeandourloveforyougavemeaningtoourpublicservice.Theymadethepresidencythesecond-mostimportantjobIeverhad.

Iloveyoubothsomuch.Thankyou.

Andletmelastlythankthepeoplewhohavecontributedtoandbuiltthislibrary:theSchoolofPublicServiceandthefoundation,mystaff,myformerstaff,theboard,thearchitects,theexhibitdesigners,thelandscapers,thecontractors,the1,500peoplewhoputthisbuildingup,thecityandstateofficialswhosuortedit.Ithankeeciallythearchitects,JimPolshekandRichardOlcott;RalphAlebaumforthewonderfulexhibitandmylongtimefriend,BillClark,whosecompanybuiltthisbuilding.

IalsowanttosaythatIthankthoseofyouwhoarecontinuingtohelpintheworkofthelibraryandthefoundation.

ThislibrarytellsthestoryofAmericaattheendofthe20thcentury,ofadramaticallydifferenttimeinthewayweworkedandlived.WemovedoutoftheColdWarintoanageofinterdependencewithnewpoibilitiesandnewdangers.Wemovedoutofaninformation--Imean,anindustrialeconomyintoaninformation-ageeconomy.WemovedoutofaperiodwhenwewereoeedwithovercomingthelegacyofslaveryanddiscriminationagaitAfrican-Americatoapointwherewewerechallengedtodealwithanexplosionofdiversity,ofpeoplefromallracesandethnicgrouandreligiofromaroundtheworld,andwehadtochangetheroleofgovernmenttodealwiththat.

Thatwholestoryishere,in80milliondocuments,21millione-mails--twoofthemmine--(laughter)--2millionphotographs,and80,000artifacts.Intheinterestsofopeeandpublicacce,weareaskingmorethan100,000ofthesedocumentstobeopenedearlybeforethelawrequires.

IthankthosewhoareworkingontheClintonSchoolofPublicService,becauseIwantmoreyoungpeopletogointopublicservice.

IthankthosewhoareworkinginHarlemandhereonmyfoundationorwhovisitusontheInternet,asHillarysaid,atclintonfoundation.org,whohelpustopromotereligiousandracialreconciliation,toadvancecitizenservice,topromoteeconomicempowermentforpoorpeopleinpoorcommunities,andtocontinuethefightagaitAIDS.InthreeyearsinAfrica,theCariean,IndiaandChina,wehavesucceededincuttingthepriceofthetestingequipmentandgenericdrugsby70percent,andwehopeby2006,andexpect,toserveover2millionpeoplewithmedicinewhowerenotgettingitonthedayIleftoffice.

Nowthislibrary,ofcourse,isprimarilyaboutmypresidency.IwanttosayaecialwordofthankstoAlGoreandtoTierfortheindieablecontributionthattheymade.AndItoldAltodaythatthislibrarywonaninternationalenvironmentalaward,eventhoughit'sgotalotofgla.Becauseofsolarpanelsandalotofotherimprovements,wecuttheenergyusagehereby34percent.SoAl,thanksfortheiiration,andI'mstilltryingtomeasureuptothechallengeyousetformesolongago.

Ibelievethejobofapresidentistounderstandandexplainthetimeinwhichheserves,tosetforthavisionofwhereweneedtogoandastrategyofhowtogetthere,andthentopursueitwithallhismindandheart--bendingonlyinthefaceoferrorornewcircumstancesandthecriseswhichareunforeseen,aproblemthataffectsallofus.

WhenIbecamepresidenttheworldwasanewandverydifferentplace,asIsaid.AndIthoughtabouthowweoughttoconfrontit.Americahastwogreatdominantstrandsofpoliticalthought;we'rerepresenteduphereonthisstage:coervatism,whichatitsverybestdrawslinesthatshouldnotbecroed;andprogreivism,whichatitsverybestbreaksdownbarriersthatarenolongerneededorshouldneverhavebeenerectedinthefirstplace.

Itseemedtomethatin1992weneededtodobothtoprepareAmericaforthe21stcentury--tobemorecoervativeinthingslikeerasingthedeficitandpayingdownthedebt,andpreventingcrimeandpunishingcriminals,andprotectingandsuortingfamilies,andenforcingthingslikechildsuortlaws,andreformingthemilitarytomeetthenewchallengesofthe21stcentury.Andweneededtobemoreprogreiveincreatinggoodjo,reducingpoverty,increasingthequalityofpubliceducation,openingthedoorsofcollegetoall,increasingaccetohealthcare,investingmoreinscienceandtechnology,andbuildingnewallianceswithourformeradversaries,andworkingforpeaceacrotheworldandpeaceinAmerica,acroallthelinesthatdivideus.

NowwhenIproposedtodoboth,wesaidthatallofthemwerecoistentwiththegreatAmericanvaluesofoortunity,reoibilityandcommunity.Welabeledthearoach“NewDemocrat.”Itthenbecameknownas“theThirdWay.”Itwas--asitwasembracedbyprogreivepartiesacrotheworld.ButIlikethesloganwehadwaybackin1992,“puttingpeoplefirst,”becauseintheend,Ialwayskeptscorebyasimplemeasure:WereordinarypeoplebetteroffwhenIstoedthanwhenIstarted?

Igrewupinthepre-televisionage,inafamilyofuneducatedbutsmart,hard-working,caringstorytellers.Theytaughtmethateveryonehasastory.Andthatmadepoliticsinteelypersonaltome.Itwasaboutgivingpeoplebetterstories.That'swhyIaskedthosesixpeopletotalkheretoday.WhenIthinkoftheFamilyLeaveLaw,IthinkofthatgoodmanwhobroughthisdyingdaughtertoseemeintheWhiteHouseonaSundaymorning,andwhograedmeasIwalkedawayandsaid,“ThetimeIgottotakeofffromworkwasthemostimportanttimeinmylife.”

Ithinkofpeoplelikethatfinewomanwhoworkedherselfoutofwelfareandnowruherownbusine.IrememberthefirstwomanIevertalkedtowhowentfromwelfaretowork.Isaid,“What'sthebestthingaboutit?”Shesaid,“Whenmyboygoestoschoolandtheysay,'Whatdoesyourmamadoforaliving,'hecangiveanawer.”Thosearethethingsthatmakepoliticsrealtome,athomeandaroundtheworld.

Therecordisallinthere--whatwedidathome,whatwedidabroad.IthankBonoforsingingaboutNorthernIrelandandPresidentBushformentioningtheBalka.Thereweremanyotherplaceswetriedtohelp.

Buttherecordisthere.Evenwherewefellshort,wepushedforward.AndwhatIwanttosayis,ifyouthinkofthebiggestdisaointmentaroundtheworldtome,ItriedsohardforpeaceintheMiddleEast.IthankShimonPeresandthechildrenofYitzhakRabinandEhudBarakforbeingheretoday,andthecurrentforeignministerofIsraelforbeingheretoday.IdidallIcould.

Butwhenwehadsevenyearsofprogretowardpeace,therewasonewholeyearwhen,forthefirsttimeinthehistoryofthestateofIsrael,notonepersondiedofaterroristattack,whenthePalestiniabegantobelievetheycouldhaveasharedfuture.Andso,Mr.President,again,Isay:IhopeyougettocrooverintothepromisedlandofMiddleEastpeace.Wehaveagoodoortunity,andweareallprayingforyou.好范文版權所有

(Alause)

Finally,letmesaythis.Quiteapartfromallthedetails,thethingIwantmostisforpeoplewhocometothislibrary,whetherthey'reRepublicaorDemocrats,liberalsorcoervatives,toseethatpublicserviceisnobleandimportant,thatthechoicesanddecisioleadersmakeaffectthelivesofmillioofAmericaandpeopleallacrotheworld.

IwantyoungpeopletowanttoseenotonlywhatIdidwithmylife,buttoseewhattheycoulddowiththeirlives.Becausethisismostlythestoryofwhatwe,thepeople,candowhenweworktogether.

Yes,thislibraryisthesymbolofabridge,abridgetothe21stcentury.It'sbeencalledoneofthegreatachievementsofthenewage,andaBritishmagazinesaiditlookedlikeaglorifiedhousetrailer.AndIthought,well,that'saboutme,youknow?I'malittleredandalittleblue.

(Laughter)

WhatitistomeisthesymbolofnotonlywhatItriedtodobutwhatIwanttodowiththerestofmylife--buildingbridgesfromyesterdaytotomorrow,buildingbridgesacroracialandreligiousandethnicandincomeandpoliticaldivides.

Buildingbridges.

Ibelieveourmiioninthisnewcenturyisclear.Forgoodorill,weliveinaninterdependentworld.Wecan'tescapeeachother.Andwhilewehavetofightourenemies,wecan'tpoiblykill,jailoroccupyallofthem.Therefore,wehavetoendourlivesbuildingaglobalcommunityandanAmericancommunityofsharedreoibilities,sharedvalues,sharedbenefits.

Whatarethosevalues?AndIwanttosaythis.Thisisimportant.Idon'twanttobetoopoliticalhere,butitbothersmewhenAmericagetsasdividedasitwas.Ioncesaidtoafriendofmine,aboutthreedaysbeforetheelection--Iheardalltheseterriblethings--Isaid,“Youknow,amItheonlypersonintheentireUnitedStatesofAmericawholikesbothGeorgeW.BushandJohnKerry,whobelievesthey'rebothgoodpeople,whobelievestheybothloveourcountryandtheyjustseetheworlddifferently?”

Whatshouldoursharedvaluesbe?Everybodycounts.Everybodydeservesachance.Everybody'sgotareoibilitytofulfill.Wealldobetterwhenweworktogether.Ourdifferencesdomatter,butourcommonhumanitymattersmore.

SoItellyouwecancontinuebuildingourbridgetotomorrow.ItwillrequiresomeredAmericanline-drawingandsomeblueAmericanbarrier-breaking,butwecandoittogether.

ThankyouandGodbleyou.(Alause)好范文版權所有

第三篇：克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝演講

克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝

president clinton's remarks at library dedication

11月18日，美國第12個總統圖書館——克林頓圖書館正式向公眾開放，克林頓政府要員、前總統老布什和現任總統小布什、演藝明星等人前往捧場，出席總人數估計達到了3萬人。該圖書館名為威廉·杰斐遜·克林頓總統中心，座落在美國前總統克林頓的家鄉美國中南部阿肯色州的小石城。

按照美國政府的傳統，軍樂團奏起《向總統致敬》，克林頓在老布什、小布什和前總統卡特的陪同下走上臺。早些時候他們的夫人已經上臺。由于下著大雨，每人都撐著一把傘。

november 18, 2004

president clinton:

(laughter)

thank you skip rutherford and all those on my staff and the volunteers from arkansas and across america who work so hard to make this event just perfect--(he laughs)--and except for one thing, it is.i thank the previous speakers and those who have sung and entertained.i remember the first time i ever heard george w.bush give a speech in iowa, and i called a friend of mine and i said: “my god, that guy can beat us.he is a good politician.” he has been very kind and generous to my family, and i thank him for that.today we're all red, white and blue.thank you president and mrs.carter for all you did in the white house and all you've done in the years since to make the world more just and peaceful.john quincy adams once said, “there is nothing in life so pathetic as a former president.” well, he turned out to be wrong ause of his own service, and president carter has proved that nothing could be further from the truth.(applause)

he just told you we met 30 years ago when he was trying to help me.he didn't tell you that, less than a year later and less than a mile from here, jimmy carter asked hillary and me to join in his campaign for the presidency.we did, and as you can see from this day, it was the beginning of quite a ride.i want to thank all the vast numbers of conss and former members who are here who served with me.i couldn't have done most of the good things we did without 'em, and they're not responsible for any of the mistakes i made.i can't see through all the umbrellas and all the ponchos or whatever you call those plastic things that make you all look so beautiful--(laughter)--but i'm pretty sure senator kerry's out there.and if he is, i want to thank him and i'm glad he's back on the job.(applause)

i want to thank the people of my beloved home state for your support, for your love, your friendship, the trust, the sacrifices you so willingly made when we worked together here and when you carried me to the white house.i thank the friends of a lifetime who also made indispensable contributions.i've said a lot of times i may be the only guy that ever got elected president ause of his personal friends.i thank my pastor, rex horne, and all the other ministers here who have taught me, prayed with me, and counseled me over the years.i thank god for my family and hillary's family.a lot of them are here today, and i thank you for making this whole long trip.like i said, i do wish my mother were here.she would have enjoyed seeing all of you, even in the rain, and i promise you--(he laughs)--you would have enjoyed seeing her.i love you both so much.thank you.i also want to say that i thank those of you who are continuing to help in the work of the library and the foundation.that whole story is here, in 80 million documents, 21 million e-mails--two of them mine--(laughter)--2 million photographs, and 80,000 artifacts.in the interests of openness and public access, we are asking more than 100,000 of these documents to be opened early before the law requires.i thank those who are working on the clinton school of public service, ause i want more young people to go into public service.now this library, of course, is primarily about my presidency.i want to say a special word of thanks to al gore and to tipper for the indispensable contribution that they made.and i told al today that this library won an international environmental award, even though it's got a lot of glass.ause of solar panels and a lot of other improvements, we cut the energy usage here by 34 percent.so al, thanks for the inspiration, and i'm still trying to measure up to the challenge you set for me so long ago.i believe the job of a president is to understand and explain the time in which he serves, to set forth a vision of where we need to go and a strategy of how to get there, and then to pursue it with all his mind and heart--bending only in the face of error or new circumstances and the crises which are unforeseen, a problem that affects all of us.when i ame president the world was a new and very different place, as i said.and i thought about how we ought to confront it.america has two at dominant strands of political thought;we're represented up here on this stage: conservatism, which at its very best draws lines that should not be crossed;and prossivism, which at its very best breaks down barriers that are no longer needed or should never have been erected in the first place.it seemed to me that in 1992 we needed to do both to prepare america for the 21st century--to be more conservative in things like erasing the deficit and paying down the debt, and preventing crime and punishing criminals, and protecting and supporting families, and enforcing things like child support laws, and reforming the military to meet thenew challenges of the 21st century.and we needed to be more prossive in creating good jobs, reducing poverty, increasing the quality of public education, opening the doors of college to all, increasing access to health care, investing more in science and technology, and building new alliances with our former adversaries, and working for peace across the world and peace in america, across all the lines that divide us.i w up in the pre-television age, in a family of uneducated but smart, hard-working, caring storytellers.they taught me that everyone has a story.and that made politics intensely personal to me.it was about giving people better stories.that's why i asked those six people to talk here today.when i think of the family leave law, i think of that good man who brought his dying daughter to see me in the white house on a sunday morning, and who grabbed me as i walked away and said, “the time i got to take off from work was the most important time in my life.”

i think of people like that fine woman who worked herself out of welfare and now runs her own business.i remember the first woman i ever talked to who went from welfare to work.i said, “what's the best thing about it?” she said, “when my boy goes to school and they say, 'what does your mama do for a living,' he can give an answer.” those are the things that make politics real to me, at home and around the world.the record is all in there--what we did at home, what we did abroad.i thank bono for singing about northern ireland and president bush for mentioning the balkans.there were many other places we tried to help.but the record is there.even where we fell short, we pushed forward.and what i want to say is, if you think of the biggest disappointment around the world to me, i tried so hard for peace in the middle east.i thank shimon peres and the children of yitzhak rabin and ehud barak for being here today, and the current foreign minister of israel for being here today.i did all i could.but when we had seven years of pross toward peace, there was one whole year when, for the first time in the history of the state of israel, not one person died of a terrorist attack, when the palestinians began to believe they could have a shared future.and so, mr.president, again, i say: i hope you get to cross over into the promised land of middle east peace.we have a good opportunity, and we are all praying for you.(applause)

i want young people to want to see not only what i did with my life, but to see what they could do with their lives.ause this is mostly the story of what we, the people, can do when we work together.yes, this library is the symbol of a bridge, a bridge to the 21st century.it's been called one of the at achievements of the new age, and a british magazine said it looked like a glorified house trailer.and i thought, well, that's about me, you know? i'm a little red and a little blue.(laughter)

building bridges.what are those values? and i want to say this.this is important.i don't want to be too political here, but it bothers me when america gets as divided as it was.i once said to a friend of mine, about three days before the election--i heard all these terrible things--i said, “you know, am i the only person in the entire united states of america who likes both george w.bush and john kerry, who believes they're both good people, who believes they both love our country and they just see the world differently?”

so i tell you we can continue building our bridge to tomorrow.it will require some red american line-drawing and some blue american barrier-breaking, but we can do it together.thank you and god bless you.(applause)

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美國前總統克林頓（左二）與現總統布什（左一）、前總統卡特（右二）、前總統喬治·布什（右一）四人在美國阿肯色州小石城共同出席克林頓總統圖書館開放儀式。

4位前第一夫人上臺。從左到右分別是卡特夫人、克林頓夫人、現任總統布什的夫人和老布什總統的夫人。

第四篇：克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝演講

克林頓在總統圖書館發表致謝演講

名人演講稿

pRESIDENTClinton:

(Alause)Well,ladiesandgentlemen,ifmybelovedmotherwerehere,shewouldremindmethatrainisliquidsuhineandthatIshouldn'tcomplainaboutthisbecausethegroundprobablyneedsitandsomebodyisbenefitingfromit.Mr.presidentandMrs.Bush,presidentandMrs.Carter,presidentandMrs.Bush,membersoftheEisenhower,Nixon,Johon,KeedyandCarterfamilietothevastnumberofmembersofCongreandformermembersofCongrehere--Idon'tknowwheretheyarebecauseyou'reallinponchos--(cheers)--buttheretheyare;there'sahugegroupfromCongre,andthepresidentsentfourplanesdownandIthankhimforthat;toalltheguestsfromothercountrieandmyfellowAmerica--welcometomyrainylibrarydedication.(Laughter)

ThankyouSkipRutherfordandallthoseonmystaffandthevolunteersfromArkaasandacroAmericawhoworksohardtomakethiseventjustperfect--(helaughs)--andexceptforonething,itis.Ithankthepreviouseakersandthosewhohavesungandentertained.Mr.president,Ican'tthankyouenoughforyourgenerouswordsandforcomingtotheopeningatall.Imean,afterall,youjustdelayedyourownlibraryopeningbyfouryears.(Laughter.)Icongratulateyouonyourelection,andIwishyouGodeed,eeciallyinanewandmorehopefultimeforpeaceintheMiddleEast.IrememberthefirsttimeIeverheardGeorgeW.BushgiveaeechinIowa,andIcalledafriendofmineandIsaid:“MyGod,thatguycanbeatus.Heisagoodpolitician.”Hehasbeenverykindandgeneroustomyfamily,andIthankhimforthat.Todaywe'reallred,whiteandblue.IthankformerpresidentBushandMrs.Bushforcomingandfortheirservicetoournation.presidentBush,Ilovedallthatstuffyousaid.ButIwanttothankyouforsomethingseriously.In1989,afterIhadbeengovernorforalongtime,youwerethepresidentwhofinallycalledustogetherandaskedustodevelopnationaleducationgoalsforAmericasothatallourchildrencouldgetagoodeducation.Itwasthebegiingofaseriousreformeffort,whichItriedtocarrythroughandwhichIknowpresidentBushhastriedtopush.Sothankyoufordoingthatandforgivingmetheoortunitytoworkwithyou.ThankyoupresidentandMrs.Carterforallyoudidinth

第五篇：克林頓總統就職演說

My fellow citizens:

Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.同胞們，今天，我們在這里隆重集會來慶祝復興美國偉大時刻的到來。

This ceremony is held in the depth of winter.But by the words we speak and faces we show the world.We force the spring.A spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent American.現在雖然仍是寒月隆冬，但在對世界發出的誓言和展示的姿態中，我們已經讓春暖花開悄然降臨到了每個人的心里。春天已經來到了世界上最古老的民主國家，它為美利堅的中興帶來了一派欣欣向榮的新氣象和令人鼓舞的勇氣。

When our founder boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to the almighty,they knew that America, would have to change.，to endure,Not change for change's sake,but change to preserve America's ideals, life,liberty ,the pursuit of happiness.Though we march to the music of our time,our mission is timeless.Each generation of Americans must define what if means to be an American.當美利堅合眾國的締造者向全世界宣告這個國家的獨立和我們的遠大目標的時候，他們已然知道，美利堅合眾國必須在不斷的變革中才能得到長足的生存和發展。然而，我們并不是僅僅為了改變而改變，我們要變革是為了保持美利堅尊重生命，尊重國家公民自由和追求幸福的權利的立國思想萬代千秋永垂不朽！此刻，雖然我們已經伴隨著時代的行進曲抬頭挺進，但我們仍然需要與時俱進。每一個時代的美國人都必須清楚的了解自己作為一個美國公民的使命所在。

On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, president Bush,for his half-century of service to America.And I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over Depression, fascism and communism.在這里，請允許我代表國家，向我的前任——布什總統致敬，他盡忠職守的為這個國家奉獻了半個世紀。同時，我還要感謝數以百萬的美國人，他們在艱難困苦中堅定信念，犧牲奉獻，最終戰勝了大蕭條，法西斯和共產主義。

Today, a generation raised in shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threaten still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.今天，在冷戰陰影下成長的一代在我們這個被自由陽光溫暖的世界中肩負著新的責任，但是我們仍面臨著新仇與舊恨的威脅。

Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant(停滯的)wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among our people.盡管我們在無與倫比的物質繁華中成長，盡管我們仍然繼承了世界上最為強大的經濟體，但實際上我們的社會同時也被商業蕭條，收入停滯不前，不平等現象不斷增加以及階層隔閡加劇所削弱。

When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat.Now, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world.當喬治華盛頓在宣誓我剛才所宣誓過的誓詞的時候，消息是通過馬背和艦船緩慢的穿過陸地，跨過海洋的。而此刻，盛會現場的現場音頻視頻信號正在向全球的億萬觀眾不間斷直播。

Communications and commerce are global;investment is mobile;technology is almost magical;and ambition for a better life is now universal.We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth.現代社會，溝通和商業是全球化的，技術發展令人驚訝，同時讓生活更美好也成為了大家的愿望。我們在全球性的公平競爭中營造我們自己的生活。

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.深厚和強大的力量正在動搖和改寫我們的世界，而能否讓變革成為我們的朋友而非敵人成為了我們這個時代最為緊迫的問題。

This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it.But when most people are working harder for less;when others cannot work at all;when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our enterprises, great and small;when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom;and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.這個新世界已經讓數以百萬計的美國人通過努力奮斗過上了富足的生活，但當大部分的人每天都在努力工作卻只能勉強維持生計，當還有人得不到工作，當醫療衛生的支出正在讓許多的家庭支離破碎，當大大小小的企業正在面臨破產威脅的時候，當犯罪案件頻發給遵紀守法的人們帶來極大恐慌而無法正常享受生活的時候，當還有數以百萬計的貧苦兒童甚至還過著我們無法想象的生活的時候，我們還沒有讓變革成為我們的朋友。

We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps.But we have not done so.Instead, we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.我們知道我們必須面對殘酷的現實和采取更有力的措施。但是我們還沒有付諸實際行動，而是聽天由命隨波逐流，而恰恰正是這種聽之任之的不作為正在腐蝕我們的根基，削弱我們的經濟，它正在動搖我們的信心。

Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths.And Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people.We must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.盡管我們面臨的挑戰令人畏懼，但是我們的力量也同樣不容忽視。美利堅的國民從來就不甘于現狀，我們一直都在不斷探索進取，樂觀向上。我們肩膀上的使命帶著美利堅的先驅們賦予的美好愿望和堅強意志。

From our revolution, to the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history.從我們的革命開始，到南北戰爭到大蕭條再到民權運動，我們的人民一次又一次的從危機中萬眾一心眾志成城的書寫著歷史的豐碑。

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time.Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time.Let us embrace it.托馬斯杰斐遜堅信為了維護我們國家的根基，我們必須與時俱進義無返顧的進行變革。現在，親愛的同胞們，我們改革的時刻到來了，讓我們一起緊密擁抱它吧。

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal.There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.我們的民主不單單是世界向往的楷模同時更是美利堅自我復興的強勁動力，它將帶領著偉大的美利堅這艘巨艦一如既往乘風破浪無往不前。

And so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift;a new season of American renewal has begun.To renew America, we must be bold.We must do what no generation has had to do before.We must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, in their future, and at the same time cut our massive debt.And we must do so in a world in which we must compete for every opportunity.It will not be easy;it will require sacrifice.But it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for our own sake.We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its children.今天，我們要在這里宣告僵持和隨波逐流時代的結束，一個美利堅復興的全新時代已經開始。為了重振美利堅雄風，除了披荊斬棘勇往向前，我們別無選擇。我們必須排除萬難做一些前人從未做過的創舉。我們的政策需要向美國本土的就業，未來傾斜，同時減縮巨額債務。我們還要建立一個公平競爭的社會，這不是一件容易的事情，它需要我們做出犧牲，但它一定會實現，犧牲并不是我們的目的，實現我們的目標才是我們的最終目的，我們要像一個家庭對待自己的孩子一樣對待我們的國家。

Our Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.We can do no less.Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is.Posterity(子孫，后裔)is the world to come;the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility.We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.美利堅的開國元勛們從建國伊始就一直從子孫萬代的長遠利益出發考慮國家的發展規劃。我們更需要考慮更多。每一個注視過在夢想中熟睡的孩子眼睛的的人都明白子孫后代意味著什么。孩子就意味著未來的世界，一個我們為之而努力捍衛美利堅普世價值觀思想的世界，從他們那里我們借用了這一個星球，而為了他們我們承擔了很多神圣的責任。我們必須傾盡我們所有讓這個國家至善完美，那就是，賦予所有國民更多機會以及責任！

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each other.Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.To renew America, we must revitalize our democracy.現在該是到了打破只管索取而不付出這一壞習慣的時候了，不管是我們的政府還是任何一方。讓我們承擔其更多的責任吧，不僅僅是為了我們的家庭，而是為了我們的社區和國家。要復興美利堅，我們就必須重建我們的民主制度。

This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation.Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.這個美麗的首都，就像每一個文明初生的首都一樣，常常是一個充滿陰謀和較量的地方，權貴們為了高官厚祿而費盡心思盤算著誰進誰出，誰上誰下。他們也許早已忘記了那些為了我們今天的生而付出了艱辛汗水和多少磨難的先輩們。

Americans deserve better, and in this city today, there are people who want to do better.And so I say to all of us here, let us resolve to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down the voice of the people.Let us put aside personal advantage so that we can feel the pain and see the promise of America.Let us resolve to make our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called “bold, persistent experimentation,” a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays.Let us give this capital back to the people to whom it belongs.美利堅的國民本該得到更好的生活，就在這城市，就在今天，還有很多的人向往著那些更令人憧憬的美好生活。在這里我要跟所有的人說，同胞們，讓我們堅決地把我們的政治制度改革事業進行到底吧，那樣那些權貴和利益集團從此往后再也不能覆蓋來自人民的聲音，讓我們把我們的政府變成一個富蘭克林羅斯福稱之為持續進行大刀闊斧變革的試驗場，變成一個給我們帶來更美好的明天而不是讓生活倒退的政府。讓我們把這個美麗的首都歸還給到她本來的主人——我們美利堅公民的手上！

To renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well as at home.There is no longer division between what is foreign and what is domestic;the world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race;they affect us all.要復興美利堅，我們要面臨來自國內外的挑戰！這些挑戰無法區分哪些是來自海外哪些來自本土，全球經濟，世界環境，艾滋病危機，還有全球軍備競賽，這些問題無時不刻不在影響著我們。

Today, as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less stable.Communism's collapse has called forth old animosities（仇恨）and new dangers.Clearly America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make.時至今日，作為一個舊的秩序的過渡，新的世界獲得了更多的自由同時也更加動蕩。共產主義的垮臺帶來了新仇舊恨，我們清楚的認識到美國必須繼續一如既往的領導世界向前開進。

While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize[i:] the opportunities, of this new world.Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us.當我們重建美國的時候，面對挑戰我們不會退縮，不會放棄我們主導新世界的機會，我們將和我們的盟友一起重塑變革，讓它順應我們的意志。

When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international community is defied, we will act;with peaceful diplomacy when ever possible, with force when necessary.The brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand are testament to our resolve.當美國的重要利益受到挑戰，或者國際社會的道德秩序受到公然挑釁的時候，我們不會袖手旁觀，我們將采取和平的外交手段及一切可能的方法，必要的時候甚至訴諸武力解決問題。就在現在，驍勇善戰的美軍士兵正在波斯灣，在索馬里以及其他任何需要他們去履行美國政府意志的地方實現美國的決心。

But our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands.Across the world, we see them embraced, and we rejoice.Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom.Their cause is America's cause.實際上我們最強大的力量所在是我們的思想，在很多的領域都占據領先地位。縱觀全球，我們看到這些思想為世人所接受，而我們也深感欣慰，我們的希望，我們的熱心，我們的雙手，靠著這些我們幫助了其他國家的人民在每一塊大陸建立了民主和自由，他們的成就也是美國的成就。

The American people have summoned the change we celebrate today.You have raised your voices in an unmistakable chorus.You have cast your votes in historic numbers.And you have changed the face of Congress, the presidency and the political process itself.Yes, you, my fellow Americans have forced the spring.Now, we must do the work the season demands.美國人民一直在召喚著我們做出今天所提出的變革，你們已經發出圣歌的強音，你們已經投出了具有歷史意義的一票，是你們，讓國會舊貌換新顏，你們改變了美利堅的總統制度和政治進程。是的，親愛的美國同胞們，是你們促使了美利堅春暖花開的早日到來。同胞們，現在，到了我們響應時代要求付諸實際行動的時候了。

To that work I now turn, with all the authority of my office.I ask the Congress to join with me.But no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission alone.My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal.I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service;to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities.There is so much to be done;enough indeed for millions of others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service, too.我將和本屆政府的所有職能部門來肩負這一重要使命，我也將請求國會和我們站在一起。但是，沒有哪一個總統，哪一屆國會哪一屆政府能單獨扛起這樣的重任。親愛的同胞們，你們，我們需要你們和我們一起參與到偉大的美利堅復興運動中來。我呼吁美國的年青一代加入到報效國家的行列中來，去通過幫助貧困交加和需要幫助的兒童來實現你的理想，陪伴那些有需要的人們，重新連接我們撕裂的社區，這是一項浩瀚的工程，足以讓成千上萬有理想的年輕人投身其中。

In serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth, we need each other.And we must care for one another.Today, we do more than celebrate America;we rededicate ourselves to the very idea of America.加入效力國家的行列，我們就會明白一個很簡單但卻很令人振奮的道理，我相互需要。所以我們需要關愛彼此。今天，我們來這里不是僅僅為了歡呼為了慶祝，我們更需要把自己奉獻給最重要的美國思想。

An idea born in revolution and renewed through two centuries of challenge.An idea tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, might have been each other.An idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad diversity the deepest measure of unity.An idea infused with the conviction that America's long heroic journey must go forever upward.這是一種誕生于隆隆的革命洪潮并經受了兩個世紀洗禮的理念。這是一種煉就于知識與智慧的理念，它在影響著我們的一生，不管幸與不幸的人們，我們都身處這種思想當中。

And so, my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21st century, let us begin with energy and hope, with faith and discipline, and let us work until our work is done.The scripture says, “And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.”

所以，親愛的同胞們，當我們已經站在二十一世紀的邊緣，讓我們帶著希望和力量，帶著信念和紀律，讓我們把美利堅的復興進行到底吧，正如圣經所說：不要厭于行善，在收獲的季節，假如沒有倒下，我們將得到收獲。

From this joyful mountaintop of celebration, we hear a call to service in the valley.We have heard the trumpets.We have changed the guard.And now, each in our way, and with God's help, we must answer the call.在歡樂的慶祝巔峰之中，我聽到了山谷中傳來的召喚，我們聽到了凱旋的號角聲，我們已經換崗各就各位，現在，每一個和我們站在一起的人，在神的幫助之下，我們都必須響應國家的呼喚。

Thank you, and God bless you all.謝謝大家，愿上帝保佑你們！