第一篇：比爾·克林頓在奧克拉荷馬的演講

比爾·克林頓在奧克拉荷馬的演講

Thank you very much, Governor Keating and Mrs.Keating, Reverend Graham, to the families of

those who have been lost and wounded, to the people of Oklahoma City, who have endured so

much, and the people of this wonderful state, to all of you who are here as our fellow Americans.I

am honored to be here today to represent the American people.But I have to tell you that Hillary

and I also come as parents, as husband and wife, as people who were your neighbors for some of the best years of our lives.Today our nation joins with you in grief.We mourn with you.We share your hope against hope

that some may still survive.We thank all those who have worked so heroically to save lives and to

solve this crime those here in Oklahoma and those who are all across this great land, and many who

left their own lives to come here to work hand in hand with you.We pledge to do all we can to help

you heal the injured, to rebuild this city, and to bring to justice those who did this evil.This terrible sin took the lives of our American family, innocent children in that building, only

because their parents were trying to be good parents as well as good workers, citizens in the

building going about their daily business, and many there who served the rest of us who worked to

help the elderly and the disabled, who worked to support our farmers and our veterans, who worked

to enforce our laws and to protect us.Let us say clearly, they served us well, and we are grateful.But for so many of you they were also neighbors and friends.You saw them at church or the PTA

meetings, at the civic clubs, at the ball park.You know them in ways that all the rest of America

could not.And to all the members of the families here present who have suffered loss, though we

share your grief, your pain is unimaginable, and we know that.We cannot undo it.That is God's work.Our words seem small beside the loss you have endured.But I found a few I wanted to share today.I've received a lot of letters in these last terrible days.One stood out because it came from a young

widow and a mother of three whose own husband was murdered with over 200 other Americans

when Pan Am 103 was shot down.Here is what that woman said I should say to you today: The

anger you feel is valid, but you must not allow yourselves to be consumed by it.The hurt you feel

must not be allowed to turn into hate, but instead into the search for justice.The loss you feel must

not paralyze your own lives.Instead, you must try to pay tribute to your loved ones by continuing

to do all the things they left undone, thus ensuring they did not die in vain.Wise words from one who also knows.You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything.And you have certainly not lost America，for we will stand with you for as many tomorrows as it takes.If ever we needed evidence of that, I

could only recall the words of Governor and Mrs.Keating: “If anybody thinks that Americans are

mostly mean and selfish, they ought to come to Oklahoma.If anybody thinks Americans have lost

the capacity for love and caring and courage, they ought to come to Oklahoma.”

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To all my fellow Americans beyond this hall, I say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is

the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil.They are forces that

threaten our common peace, our freedom, our way of life.Let us teach our children that the God of

comfort is also the God of righteousness: Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind.Justice will prevail.Let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear.When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it.When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk

against it.In the face of death, let us honor life.As St.Paul admonished us, Let us “not be

overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

Yesterday, Hillary and I had the privilege of speaking with some children of other federal

employees children like those who were lost here.And one little girl said something we will never

forget.She said, “We should all plant a tree in memory of the children.” So this morning before we

got on the plane to come here, at the White House, we planted that tree in honor of the children of

Oklahoma.It was a dogwood with its wonderful spring flower and its deep, enduring roots.It

embodies the lesson of the Psalms that the life of a good person is like a tree whose leaf does not wither.My fellow Americans, a tree takes a long time to grow, and wounds take a long time to heal.But we must begin.Those who are lost now belong to God.Some day we will be with them.But until

that happens, their legacy must be our lives.Thank you all, and God bless you.

第二篇：前美國總統比爾克林頓離任電視講話

Let's begin.(Tone)My fellow citizens, tonight's my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your president.I am profoundly grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serve, to work for you and with you to prepare our nation for the 21st century.And I'm grateful to Vice President Gore, to my Cabinet secretaries, and to all those who served with me for the last eight years.This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge.You have made our social fabric stronger, our families healthier and safer, our people,more prosperous.You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of.great American renewal.In all the work I have done as president, every decision I have made, every executive action I have taken, every bill I have proposed and signed, I've tried to give all Americans the tools and conditions to build the future of our dreams, in a good society, with a strong economy, a cleaner environment, and a freer, safer, more prosperous world.I have steered my course by our enduring values.Opportunity for all.Responsibility from all.A community of all Americans.I have sought to give America a new kind of government.smaller, more modern, more effective, full of ideas and policies appropriate to this new time.ways putting people first, always focusing on the future.Working together, America has done well.Our economy is breaking records, with more than 22 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment in 30 years, the highest home ownership ever, the longest expansion in history.Our families and communities are stronger.Thirty-five million Americans have used the family leave law.Eight million have moved off welfare.Crime is at a 25-year low.Over 10 million Americans receive more college aids, and more people than ever are going to college.Our schools are better-higher standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought higher test scores, and higher graduation rates.More than 3 million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.Incomes are rising across the board.Our air and water are cleaner.Our food and drinking water are safer.And more of our precious land has been preserved, in the continental United States, than at any time in 100 years.America has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner of the globe.I'm very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of leadership to a new president, with America in such a strong position to meet the challenges of the future.Tonight, I want to leave you with three thoughts about our future.First, America must maintain our record of fiscal responsibility.Through our last four budgets, we've turned record deficits to record surpluses, and we've been able to pay down $600 billion of our national debt, on track to be debt free by the end of the decade for the first time since 1835.Staying on that course will bring lower interest rates, greater prosperity and the opportunity to meet our big challenges.If we choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the baby boomers, invest more in our future and provide tax relief.Second, because the world is more connected every day in every way, America's security and prosperity require us to continue to lead in the world.At this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom that ever before.Our alliances are stronger than ever People all around the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom and security.The global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.But the forces of integration that have created these good opportunities also make us more subject to global forces of destruction, to terrorism, organized crime and marco-trafficking, the spread of deadly weapons and disease, the degradation of the global environment.The expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around the world who live on the knife's edge of survival.This global gap requires more than compassion.It requires action.Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson warned of entangling alliances.But in our times, America cannot and must not disentangle itself from the world.If we want the world to embody our shared values, then we must assume a shared responsibility.If the wars of the 20th century, especially the recent ones in Kosovo and Bosnia, have taught us anything, it is that we achieve our aims by defending our values and leading the forces of freedom and peace.We must embrace boldly and resolutely that duty to lead, to stand with our allies in word and deed, and to put a human face on the global economy so that expanded trade benefits all peoples in all nations, lifting lives and hopes all across the world.Third, we must remember that America cannot lead in the world unless here at home we weave the threads of our coat of many colors into the fabric of one America.As we become ever more diverse, we must work harder to unite around our common values and our common humanity.We must work harder to overcome our differences.In our hearts and in our laws, we must :treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation and regardless of when they arrived in our country, always moving toward the more perfect union of our founders' dreams.Hillary, Chelsea and I join all Americans in wishing our very best to the next president, George W.Bush, to his family and his administration in meeting these challenges and in leading freedom's march in this new century.As for me, i'11 leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead.My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of service, I hope, are not.In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher or a covenant more sacred than that of president of the United States.But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen's.Thank you.God bless you, and God bless America.(Tone)

(Full text of the remarks by Bill Clinton, President of USA on his farewell television speech on January 18, 2001, as transcribed)

the Oval Office:

白宮

powder keg: 火藥桶

Cabinet secretaries:

內閣部長

inaugural address:就職演說 bill: 法案

Kosovo:科索沃

baby boomers: 嬰兒潮時期出生的人

Bosnia:波斯尼亞

narco-trafficking: 販毒

sexual orientation: 性傾向

第三篇：美國前總統比爾·克林頓在2012年9月5日民主黨全國代表大會上的演講

A transcript of former President Bill Clinton's remarks Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, as provided by the Democratic Party:

We're here to nominate a president, and I've got one in mind.I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty.A man who ran for president to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before the election, saw it suffer the biggest collapse since the Great Depression.A man who stopped the slide into depression and put us on the long road to recovery, knowing all the while that no matter how many jobs were created and saved, there were still millions more waiting, trying to feed their children and keep their hopes alive.I want to nominate a man cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside.A man who believes we can build a new American Dream economy driven by innovation and creativity, education and cooperation.A man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.I want Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States and I proudly nominate him as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party.In Tampa, we heard a lot of talk about how the president and the Democrats don't believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everyone to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy.The Republican narrative is that all of us who amount to anything are completely self-made.One of our greatest Democratic chairmen, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician wants you to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself, but it ain't so.We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity.We think “we're all in this together” is a better philosophy than “you're on your own.”

Who's right? Well, since 1961, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24.In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector jobs.What's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million.It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.After all, President Eisenhower sent federal troops to my home state to integrate Little Rock Central High and built the interstate highway system.And as governor, I worked with President Reagan on welfare reform and with President George H.W.Bush on national education goals.I am grateful to President George W.Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.Through my foundation, in America and around the world, I work with Democrats, Republicans and Independents who are focused on solving problems and seizing opportunities, not fighting each other.When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better.After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.All of us are destined to live our lives between those two extremes.Unfortunately, the faction that now dominates the Republican Party doesn't see it that way.They think government is the enemy, and compromise is weakness.One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation.He appointed Republican secretaries of defense, the army and transportation.He appointed a vice president who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation of the recovery act.And Joe Biden did a great job with both.He appointed Cabinet members who supported Hillary in the primaries.Heck, he even appointed Hillary.I'm so proud of her and grateful to our entire national security team for all they've done to make us safer and stronger and to build a world with more partners and fewer enemies.I'm also grateful to the young men and women who serve our country in the military and to Michelle Obama and Jill Biden for supporting military families when their loved ones are overseas and for helping our veterans, when they come home bearing the wounds of war, or needing help with education, housing, and jobs.President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.He also tried to work with congressional Republicans on health care, debt reduction, and jobs, but that didn't work out so well.Probably because, as the Senate Republican leader, in a remarkable moment of candor, said two years before the election, their No.1 priority was not to put America back to work, but to put President Obama out of work.Senator, I hate to break it to you, but we're going to keep President Obama on the job.In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president's re-election was pretty simple: we left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.In order to look like an acceptable alternative to President Obama, they couldn't say much about the ideas they have offered over the last two years.You see they want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place: to cut taxes for high income Americans even more than President Bush did;to get rid of those pesky financial regulations designed to prevent another crash and prohibit future bailouts;to increase defense spending $2 trillion more than the Pentagon has requested without saying what they'll spend the money on;to make enormous cuts in the rest of the budget, especially programs that help the middle class and poor kids.As another president once said_ there they go again.I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better.He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators.Are we where we want to be? No.Is the president satisfied? No.Are we better off than we were when he took office, with an economy in free fall, losing 750,000 jobs a month.The answer is yes.I understand the challenge we face.I know many Americans are still angry and frustrated with the economy.Though employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend and even housing prices are picking up a bit, too many people don't feel it.I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995.Our policies were working and the economy was growing but most people didn't feel it yet.By 1996, the economy was roaring, halfway through the longest peacetime expansion in American history.President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did.No president_ not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years.But conditions are improving and if you'll renew the President's contract you will feel it.I believe that with all my heart.President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.So back to the story.In 2010, as the president's recovery program kicked in, the job losses stopped and things began to turn around.The Recovery Act saved and created millions of jobs and cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people.In the last 29 months the economy has produced about 4.5 million private sector jobs.But last year, the Republicans blocked the president's jobs plan costing the economy more than a million new jobs.So here's another jobs score: President Obama plus 4.5 million, congressional Republicans zero.Over that same period, more than more than 500,000 manufacturing jobs have been created under President Obama_ the first time manufacturing jobs have increased since the 1990s.The auto industry restructuring worked.It saved more than a million jobs, not just at GM, Chrysler and their dealerships, but in auto parts manufacturing all over the country.That's why even auto-makers that weren't part of the deal supported it.They needed to save the suppliers too.Like I said, we're all in this together.Now there are 250,000 more people working in the auto industry than the day the companies were restructured.Gov.Romney opposed the plan to save GM and Chrysler.So here's another jobs score: Obama 250,000, Romney, zero.The agreement the administration made with management, labor and environmental groups to double car mileage over the next few years is another good deal: it will cut your gas bill in half, make us more energy independent, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and add another 500,000 good jobs.President Obama's “all of the above” energy plan is helping too_ the boom in oil and gas production combined with greater energy efficiency has driven oil imports to a near 20 year low and natural gas production to an all-time high.Renewable energy production has also doubled.We do need more new jobs, lots of them, but there are already more than three million jobs open and unfilled in America today, mostly because the applicants don't have the required skills.We have to prepare more Americans for the new jobs that are being created in a world fueled by new technology.That's why investments in our people are more important than ever.The president has supported community colleges and employers in working together to train people for open jobs in their communities.And, after a decade in which exploding college costs have increased the drop-out rate so much that we've fallen to 16th in the world in the percentage of our young adults with college degrees, his student loan reform lowers the cost of federal student loans and even more important, gives students the right to repay the loans as a fixed percentage of their incomes for up to 20 years.That means no one will have to drop-out of college for fear they can't repay their debt, and no one will have to turn down a job, as a teacher, a police officer or a small town doctor because it doesn't pay enough to make the debt payments.This will change the future for young Americans.I know we're better off because President Obama made these decisions.That brings me to health care.The Republicans call it Obamacare and say it's a government takeover of health care that they'll repeal.Are they right? Let's look at what's happened so far.Individuals and businesses have secured more than a billion dollars in refunds from their insurance premiums because the new law requires 80 percent to 85 pecent of your premiums to be spent on health care, not profits or promotion.Other insurance companies have lowered their rates to meet the requirement.More than 3 million young people between 19 and 25 are insured for the first time because their parents can now carry them on family policies.Millions of seniors are receiving preventive care including breast cancer screenings and tests for heart problems.Soon the insurance companies, not the government, will have millions of new customers many of them middle class people with pre-existing conditions.And for the last two years, health care spending has grown under 4 pecent, for the first time in 50 years.So are we all better off because President Obama fought for it and passed it? You bet we are.There were two other attacks on the president in Tampa that deserve an answer.Both Gov.Romney and congressman Ryan attacked the president for allegedly robbing Medicare of $716 billion.Here's what really happened.There were no cuts to benefits.None.What the president did was save money by cutting unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that weren't making people any healthier.He used the saving to close the donut hole in the Medicare drug program, and to add eight years to the life of the Medicare Trust Fund.It's now solvent until 2024.So President Obama and the Democrats didn't weaken Medicare, they strengthened it.When congressman Ryan looked into the TV camera and attacked President Obama's “biggest coldest power play” in raiding Medicare, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.You see, that $716 billion is exactly the same amount of Medicare savings congressman Ryan had in his own budget.At least on this one, Gov.Romney's been consistent.He wants to repeal the savings and give the money back to the insurance companies, re-open the donut hole and force seniors to pay more for drugs, and reduce the life of the Medicare Trust Fund by eight years.So now if he's elected and does what he promised Medicare will go broke by 2016.If that happens, you won't have to wait until their voucher program to begins in 2023 to see the end Medicare as we know it.But it gets worse.They also want to block grant Medicaid and cut it by a third over the coming decade.Of course, that will hurt poor kids, but that's not all.Almost two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for seniors and on people with disabilities, including kids from middle class families, with special needs like, Down syndrome or autism.I don't know how those families are going to deal with it.We can't let it happen

Now let's look at the Republican charge that President Obama wants to weaken the work requirements in the welfare reform bill I signed that moved millions of people from welfare to work.Here's what happened.When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20 percent.You hear that? More work.So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.But they keep running ads on it.As their campaign pollster said “we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.” Now that is true.I couldn't have said it better myself_ I just hope you remember that every time you see the ad.Let's talk about the debt.We have to deal with it or it will deal with us.President Obama has offered a plan with $4 trillion in debt reduction over a decade, with $2 of spending reductions for every $1 of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending.It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.I think the president's plan is better than the Romney plan, because the Romney plan fails the first test of fiscal responsibility: The numbers don't add up.It's supposed to be a debt reduction plan but it begins with $5 trillion in tax cuts over a 10-year period.That makes the debt hole bigger before they even start to dig out.They say they'll make it up by eliminating loopholes in the tax code.When you ask “which loopholes and how much?” they say, “See me after the election on that.”

People ask me all the time how we delivered four surplus budgets.What new ideas did we bring? I always give a one-word answer: arithmetic.If they stay with a $5 trillion tax cut in a debt reduction plan_ the_ arithmetic tells us that one of three things will happen:

1)they'll have to eliminate so many deductions like the ones for home mortgages and charitable giving that middle class families will see their tax bill go up $2,000 year while people making over $3 million a year get will still get a 250,000 dollar tax cut;or

2)they'll have to cut so much spending that they'll obliterate the budget for our national parks, for ensuring clean air, clean water, safe food, safe air travel;or they'll cut way back on Pell Grants, college loans, early childhood education and other programs that help middle class families and poor children, not to mention cutting investments in roads, bridges, science, technology and medical research;or

3)they'll do what they've been doing for thirty plus years now_ cut taxes more than they cut spending, explode the debt, and weaken the economy.Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left.We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.President Obama's plan cuts the debt, honors our values, and brightens the future for our children, our families and our nation.My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in.If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket.If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities_ a “we're all in it together” society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.If you want every American to vote and you think it's wrong to change voting procedures just to reduce the turnout of younger, poorer, minority and disabled voters, you should support Barack Obama.If you think the president was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.I love our country_ and I know we're coming back.For more than 200 years, through every crisis, we've always come out stronger than we went in.And we will again as long as we do it together.We champion the cause for which our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor_ to form a more perfect union.If that's what you believe, if that's what you want, we have to re-elect President Barack Obama.God bless you _ God bless America.

第四篇：比爾、蓋茨斯坦福大學123演講

樂觀不是等待事情變好

比爾·蓋茨在斯坦福大學123屆畢業典禮演講

恭喜你們，2014屆畢業生!能受邀到斯坦福大學做演講，每個人都會感到興奮，對我來說尤其如此。斯坦福大學是我的家庭成員和微軟員工們最喜歡的大學。我們在這里收獲了最聰明、最有創造力的同仁，而他們只是斯坦福畢業生中的一小部分。

現在，我們在這里進行著30多個研究項目。當我們想更深入地了解免疫系統，以治愈更多病人時，我們與斯坦福合作;并我們想了解高等教育的發展和變革時，我們與斯坦福合作。這里是天才的居住地。這里有靈動的心，正敞開懷抱迎接改變，渴望著所有創新之物。人們在這里探索未來，樂在其中。這個校園有那么多了不起的東西，但如果一定要用一個詞來概括我們最喜歡斯坦福大學的地方，那便是“樂觀主義”。

(蓋茨夫人)一些人叫你們書呆子，我們聽說你們正為此而感到驕傲。(蓋茨)“我們也是(書呆子)。” 樂觀是一種極具傳染性的情緒，它讓每個人堅信創新幾乎可以解決所有的問題。這種信念驅使我在1975年輟學，并隨著時間的不斷流逝而與日劇增。到現在40年過去了，我們結婚也20年了。現在我們也比過往任何時候都樂觀。所以今天我想談談：我們為什么需要樂觀精神。

胸有成竹之前，去看看這個世界先 當我開始寫微軟的第一行代碼時，我希望將計算機和軟件的力量最大化。在當時，只有大企業可以購買電腦。

到了90年代，個人電腦開始深刻地影響人們的日常生活，卻在同時造成了一個新的困境：只有富家子弟能得到計算機。技術正使不平等現象惡化，這違背了我們的核心信念——科技應當使所有人受益。因此，我們開始致力于縮小數字鴻溝。我們給公共圖書館捐贈個人電腦，以確保每個人都有機會使用。

1997年，我到南非訪問，住在當地最富有的家庭之一。當我和這個家的主人坐下來準備吃飯的時候，他們敲了一下鐘，叫來管家。晚餐后，男人和女人分開，男人們開始抽雪茄。當時，我腦海里閃過一個念頭，“還好我讀過簡〃奧斯汀，不然我可搞不清眼前這一切是怎么回事?！?第二天，我去了索韋托，約翰內斯堡市西南部的一個鄉鎮，這里一直是反種族隔離運動的中心。我們給那里的社區中心捐贈了一批電腦和軟件，就像我們在美國所做的事情一樣，但很快，我們發現，這里并不是美國。從城市到鄉鎮的距離非常短，但城鄉之間卻是卻那么地不和諧。我感覺自己仿佛到了另一個世界。我見過貧困數據統計，但我從未真正目睹過貧困。那里的人民生活在瓦楞鐵皮棚，沒

有電，沒有水，沒有廁所。大多數人沒有穿鞋，他們光著腳走在街上。那里的街道空空如也，泥濘中透出隱約的車轍。

社區中心沒有固定的穩定電源，靠一條連到大約200英尺外的中央柴油發電機的延長線，勉強維持電力供應。當我和隨行的記者準備離開時，發電機的任務便結束了，社區中心里的人也將回家繼續擔心自己的生計，而這并不是一臺個人電腦就能解決的難題。我把事先準備好的講稿遞給記者，上面寫道，“索韋托是一個里程碑，在有關技術是否會使發展中國家越來越落后的議題上，答案越來越明確——它們正在縮小差距，而非擴大?！?/p>

然而我沒有說的是，“順便說一下，我們并沒有關注到這片土地上每年有50萬人民死于瘧疾的事實，我們只負責把電腦送給他們。”

在此之前，我以為我明白世界上所有的問題，但事實上，我卻在這件事情上當了“睜眼瞎”，我不得不問自己，“難道我還相信，創新能夠解決世界上最棘手的問題嗎?”我們不能為了救助，而把最重要的事情卻給忽略了。我們必須找到貧困者的當務之急，和當下之需。

見證痛苦，才能讓樂觀兌現 當然，這種自我懷疑并沒有持續太久。很快我就意識到，即使在嚴峻的情況下，樂觀也可以推動創新，并催生新的工具，以消除痛苦。但是，如果你從來沒有看到真正痛苦的人，你的樂觀便不能幫助他們——你將永遠不會改變他們的世界。多年來，我和我的太太都致力于了解貧困人士們最迫切的需求。在后來的南非之行，我拜訪了一家醫院，那里滿是患結核病的患者，簡直是一個巨大的戴著口罩的海洋，上面飄著一大張地獄候選名單。但與第一次索韋托之行不同，后來再深入“地獄”讓我更想做些事情。我從醫院出來，上了車，告訴與我們合作的醫生：“我知道結核病是難以治愈的，但我們應該能夠做一些事情?！?有人習慣把樂觀指稱為“錯誤的希望”，但想一下，“錯誤的無望”是否同樣存在?有人說，我們不能戰勝貧困和疾病，但我并不這么認為。今年，我們的抗結核藥物研究正在進入第三階段，經過努力，這種病的治愈率已從50%提升到了80-90%。

樂觀不是等待事情變好，而是相信自己能夠做得更好 現代社會有無與倫比的創新精神，而斯坦福大學正處在創新的核心。斯坦福孕育了許許多多的新公司，各行各業的教授，創新的軟件和藥品。這里的人們對未來充滿渴望。然而，如果你在美國街頭問問人們，“未來會比過去更好嗎?”大多數人會回答，“不，我的孩子未必會比我過得更好?！彼麄冋J為創新不能改善這個世界。這些悲觀論調是錯誤的，他們的想法一點都不“瘋狂”。如果我們不注重創新，那么我們就不可能有驚人的發明，我們不會改善公立學校，不會治愈瘧疾，不會結束貧困，不會幫助貧困農民應付不斷變化的氣候。

樂觀不是消極地期待事情變好，而是一種信念，相信自己可以做的更好。任何時候，樂觀都能加速創新，避免或減輕痛苦。我們需要同理心，它能引導我們的樂觀，帶我們走近貧窮和疾病，找到一個個充滿創意的回答，給悲觀主義者們一個又一個驚喜。

當我在你們這個年齡時，我的世界觀并沒有像你們中的大多數人所擁有的更廣闊。接下來，你們將引領新的創新浪潮，并把它應用到你的世界。如果你的世界很寬廣，你可以創建我們都希望的未來，如果你的世界是狹窄的，你可能迎來一個悲觀恐懼的未來。毋庸置疑的是，你們會比我做得更好。

第五篇：克林頓最后的演講

Clinton’s Farewell Speech

同胞們，今晚是我最后一次作為你們的總統，在白宮橢圓形辦公室向你們做最后一次演講。

My fellow citizens, tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your president.這是一個激烈變革的年代，你們為迎接新的挑戰已經做好了準備。This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to 是你們讓我們的社會結構更加牢固，我們的家人更加健康安全，我們的人民更加富裕

every challenge.You have made our social fabric stronger, our families healthier and safer, and our people more prosperous.同胞們，我們已經進入了全球信息化的時代，這是美國復興的偉大時代。

You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.我們在一起使美國變得更加美好。美國的經濟正在突破一個又一個的記錄，向前發展。我們已創造了2200萬個新的工作崗位，失業率是30年最低的，老百姓的住房自有率達到一個空前的高度，我們經濟繁榮的持續時間是歷史上最長的。

Working together, America has done well.Our economy is breaking records, with more than 22 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment in 30 years, the highest home ownership ever, the longest expansion in history.我們的家庭、我們的社會變得日益強大。3500萬美國人享受聯邦休假，800萬人重新獲得社會保障，犯罪率是25年來最低的，1000多萬美國人享受更多的入學貸款，更多人接受大學教育。我們的學校也砸改善。辦學水平提高、責任感增強和投資加大，使得學生取得更高的分數和更高的升學率。

Our families and communities are stronger.35 million American have used the families leave law.Eight million have moved off welfare.Crime is at a 25-year low.Over 10 million American receive more college.Our school are better-high standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought higher test scores, and higher graduation rates.目前，已有300多萬美國兒童享受醫療保險，700多萬美國人已經脫離了貧困線。全國人民的收入大幅度提高。我們的空氣和水資源更加潔凈，食品和飲用水更加安全。我們珍貴的土地資源也得到了近百年來所未有的保護。

More than three million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million American have been lifted out of poverty.Incomes are rising across the board.Our air and water are cleaner.Our food and drinking water are safer.And more of our precious land has been preserved, in the continental United States, than at any time in 100 years.美國已經成為積極力量，為地球上每個角落維護和平，促進繁榮。我非常高興能在此時將領導權交給信任總統，強大的美國正面臨未來的挑戰。

American has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner of the globe.I’m very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of leadership to a new president, with America in such a strong position to meet the challenges of the future.