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克林顿总统1997年联邦国情咨文演说
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克林顿总统1997年联邦国情咨文演说名人演讲稿THEPRESIDENT:Mr.Speaker,Mr.VicePresident,membersofthe105thCon gress,distinguishedguests,andmyfellowAmericans: IthinkIshouldstartbysaying,thanksforinvitingmeback.(Applause.)Icomebe foreyoutonightwithachallengeasgreatasanyinourpeacetimehistory,andapla nofactiontomeetthatchallenge,toprepareourpeoplefortheboldnewworldofth e21stcentury.Wehavemuchtobethankfulfor.Withfouryearsofgrowth,wehavewonbackthe basicstrengthofoureconomy.Withcrimeandwelfarerollsdeclining,wearewin ningbackouroptimism,theenduringfaiththatwecanmasteranydifficulty.With theColdWarrecedingandglobalcommerceatrecordlevels,wearehelpingtowi nunrivaledpeaceandprosperityallacrosstheworld. MyfellowAmericans,thestateofourunionisstrong.(Applause.)Butnowwem ustrisetothedecisivemoment,tomakeanationandaworldbetterthananywehav eeverknown.Thenewpromiseoftheglobaleconomy,theInformationAge,uni maginednewwork,life-enhancingtechnology--alltheseareourstoseize.Thati sourhonorandourchallenge.Wemustbeshapersofevents,notobservers.Forif wedonotact,themomentwillpass--andwewilllosethebestpossibilitiesofourf uture.Wefacenoimminentthreat,butwedohaveanenemy--theenemyofourtimeisina ction.So,tonight,Iissueacalltoaction--actionbythisCongress,actionbyourstates,byourpeople,toprepareAmericaforthe21stcentury.Actiontokeepoureco nomyandourdemocracystrongandworkingforallourpeople;actiontostrength eneducationandharnesstheforcesoftechnologyandscience;actiontobuildstro ngerfamiliesandstrongercommunitiesandasaferenvironment;actiontokeep Americatheworld’’’’sstrongestforceforpeace,f reedomandprosperity.Andab oveall,actiontobuildamoreperfectunionhereathome. Thespiritwebringtoourworkwillmakeallthedifference.Wemustbecommitte dtothepursuitofopportunityforallAmericans,responsibilityfromallAmerica ns,inacommunityofallAmericans.Andwemustbecommittedtoanewkindofg overnment--nottosolveallourproblemsforus,buttogiveourpeople--allourpe ople--thetoolstheyneedtomakethemostoftheirownlives. Andwemustworktogether.Thepeopleofthisnationelectedusall.Theywantust obepartners,notpartisans.Theyputusallrighthereinthesameboat,theygaveus alloars,andtheytoldustorow.Now,hereisthedirectionIbelieveweshouldtake. First,wemustmovequicklytocompletetheunfinishedbusinessofourcountry--tobalanceourbudget,renewourdemocracy,andfinishthejobofwelfarereform. Overthelastfouryears,wehavebroughtneweconomicgrowthbyinvestinginou rpeople,expandingourexports,cuttingourdeficits,creatingover11millionne wjobs,afour-yearrecord.(Applause.)Nowwemustkeepoureconomythestron gestintheworld.Weheretonighthaveanhistoricopportunity.LetthisCongress betheCongressthatfinallybalancesthebudget.(Applause.)Intwodays,Iwillproposeadetailedplantobalancethebudgetby20XX.ThisplanwillbalancethebudgetandinvestinourpeoplewhileprotectingMedicare,Me dicaid,education,andtheenvironment.Itwillbalancethebudgetandbuildonth eVicePres ident’’’’seffortstomakeourgovernmentworkbetter,evenasitcostsle ss.Itwillbalancethebudgetandprovidemiddleclasstaxrelieftopayforeducatio nandhealthcare,tohelptoraiseachild,tobuyandsellahome. Balancingthebudgetrequiresonlyyourvoteandmysignature.Itdoesnotrequir eustorewriteourConstitution.(Applause.)Ibelieveitisbothunnecessaryandu nwisetoadoptabalancedbudgetamendmentthatcouldcrippleourcountryinti meofcrisis,andforceunwantedresults,suchasjudgeshaltingSocialSecuritych ecksorincreasingtaxes.Letusatleastagree,weshouldnotpassanymeasure--no measureshouldbepassedthatthreatensSocialSecurity.(Applause.)Whatever yourviewonthat,weallmustconcedewedon’’’’tneedaconstitutionalamendme nt,weneedaction.(Applause.)Whateverourdifferences,weshouldbalancethebudgetnow.Andthen,forthelo ng-termhealthofoursociety,wemustagreetoabipartisanprocesstopreserveSo cialSecurityandreformMedicareforthelongrun,sothatthesefundamentalpro gramswillbeasstrongforourchildrenastheyareforourparents. Andletmesaysomethingthat’’’’snotinmyscripttonight.Iknowthisisnotgoi ngt obeeasy.ButIreallybelieveoneofthereasonstheAmericanpeoplegavemeasec ondtermwastotakethetoughdecisionsinthenextfouryearsthatwillcarryourco untrythroughthenext50years.Iknowitiseasierformethanforyoutosayordo.B utanotherreasonIwaselectedistosupportallofyou,withoutregardtoparty,togiveyouwhatisnecessarytojoininthesedecisions.Weoweittoourcountryandtoo urfuture.(Applause.) Oursecondpieceofunfinishedbusinessrequiresustocommitourselvestonight ,beforetheeyesofAmerica,tofinallyenactingbipartisancampaignfinancerefo rm.(Applause.)Now,SenatorsMcCainandFeingold,RepresentativesShaysandMeehan,have reachedacrosspartylinesheretocrafttoughandfairreform.Theirproposalwoul dcurbspending,reducetheroleofspecialinterests,createalevelplayingfieldbet weenchallengersandincumbents,andbancontributionsfromnoncitizens,allc orporatesources,andtheotherlargesoftmoneycontributionsthatbothpartiesre ceive.YouknowandIknowthatthiscanbedelayed.AndyouknowandIknowthedelay willmeanthedeathofreform.Solet’’’’ssetourowndeadline.Let’’’’sworktogeth ertowritebipartisancampaignfinancereformintolawandpassMcCain-Feingo ldbythedaywecelebratethebirthofourdemocracy--Julythe4th.(Applause.) Thereisathirdpieceofunfinishedbusiness.Overthelastfouryears,wemovedar ecord2.25millionpeopleoffthewelfarerolls.Thenlastyear,Congressenactedl andmarkwelfarereformlegislation,demandingthatallable-bodiedrecipientsa ssumetheresponsibilityofmovingfromwelfaretowork. Noweachandeveryoneofushastofulfillourresponsibility--indeed,ourmoralo bligation--tomakesurethatpeoplewhonowmustwork,canwork.(Applause.) Nowwemustacttomeetanewgoal:2millionmorepeopleoffthewelfarerollsbytheyear2000.Hereismyplan:Taxcreditsandotherincentivesforbusinessesthathirepeopleof fwelfare;incentivesforjobplacementfirmsandstatestocreatemorejobsforwel farerecipients;training,transportation,andchildcaretohelppeoplegotowork. NowIchallengeeverystate:Turnthosewelfarechecksintoprivatesectorpaych ecks.Ichallengeeveryreligiouscongregation,everycommunitynonprofit,eve rybusinesstohiresomeoneoffwelfare.AndI’’’’dliketosayespeciallytoeverye mployerino urcountrywhoevercriticizedtheoldwelfaresystem,youcan’’’’tbla methatoldsystemanymore,wehavetornitdown.Nowdoyourpart.Givesomeo neonwelfarethechancetogotowork.(Applause.)Tonight,Iampleasedtoannouncethatfivemajorcorporations--Sprint,Monsan to,UPS,BurgerKingandUnitedAirlines--willbethefirsttojoininanewnationa lefforttomarshalAmerica’’’’sbusinesses,largeandsmall,tocreatejobssothatp eoplecanmovefromwelfaretowork.(Applause.) Wepassedwelfarereform.AllofyouknowIbelievewewererighttodoit.Butnoo necanwalkoutofthischamberwithaclearconscienceunlessyouarepreparedtof inishthejob.(Applause.) Andwemustjointogethertodosomethingelse,too--somethingbothRepublica nandDemocraticgovernorshaveaskedustodo--torestorebasichealthanddisab ilitybenefitswhenmisfortunestrikesimmigrantswhocametothiscountrylegal ly,whoworkhard,paytaxesandobeythelaw.Todootherwiseissimplyunworthy ofagreatnationofimmigrants.(Applause.)Now,lookingahead,thegreateststepofall--thehighthresholdofthefutureweno wmustcross--andmynumberonepriorityforthenextfouryearsistoensurethata llAmericanshavethebesteducationintheworld.(Applause.)Let’’’’sworktogethertomeetthesethreegoals:Every8-year-oldmustbeabletor ead;every12-year-oldmustbeabletologontotheInternet;every18-year-oldm ustbeabletogotocollege;andeveryadultAmericanmustbeabletokeeponlearni ngforalifetime.(Applause.) Mybalancedbudgetmakesanunprecedentedcommitmenttothesegoals--$51b illionnextyear.Butfarmorethanmoneyisrequired.Ihaveaplan,aCalltoActionf orAmericanEducation,basedonthese10principles.First,anationalcrusadeforeducationstandards--notfederalgovernmentstand ards,butnationalstandards,representingwhatallourstudentsmustknowtosucc eedintheknowledgeeconomyofthe21stcentury.Everystateandschoolmustsh apethecurriculumtoreflectthesestandards,andtrainteacherstoliftstudentsupt othem.Tohelpschoolsmeetthestandardsandmeasuretheirprogress,wewilllea daneffortoverthenexttwoyearstodevelopnationaltestsofstudentachievemen tinreadingandmath.Tonight,Iissueachallengetothenation:Everystateshouldadopthighnationalst andards,andby1999,everystateshouldtestevery4thgraderinreadingandevery 8thgraderinmathtomakesurethesestandardsaremet.(Applause.) Raisingstandardswillnotbeeasy,andsomeofourchildrenwillnotbeabletomee tthematfirst.Thepointisnottoputourchildrendown,buttoliftthemup.Goodtestswillshowuswhoneedshelp,whatchangesinteachingtomake,andwhichschoo lsneedtoimprove.Theycanhelpustoendsocialpromotion.Fornochildshould movefromgradeschooltojuniorhigh,orjuniorhightohighschooluntilheorshei sready.Lastmonth,ourSecretaryofEducationDickRileyandIvisitedNorthernIllinois ,where8thgrad estudentsfrom20schooldistricts,inaprojectaptlycalled”Firsti ntheWorld,”tooktheThirdInternationalMathandScienceStudy.That’’’’satest thatreflectstheworld-classstandardsourchildrenmustmeetforthenewera.An dthosestudentsinIllinoistiedforfirstintheworldinscienceandcameinsecondi nmath.Twoofthem,KristinTannerandChrisGetsla,areheretonight,alongwith theirteacher,SueWinski;they’’’’reuptherewiththeFirstLady.Andtheyprovet hatwhenweaimhighandchallengeourstudents,theywillbethebestintheworld. Let’’’’sgivethemahand.Standup,please.(Applause.)Second,tohavethebestschools,wemusthavethebestteachers.Mostofusinthis chamberwouldnotbeheretonightwithoutthehelpofthoseteachers.IknowthatI wouldn’’’’tbehere.Foryears,manyofoureducators,ledbyNorthCarolina’’’’s GovernorJimHuntandtheNationalBoardforProfessionalTeachingStandards ,haveworkedveryhardtoestablishnationallyacceptedcredentialsforexcellen ceinteaching.Just500oftheseteachershavebeencertifiedsince1995.Mybudg etwillenable100,000moretoseeknationalcertificationasmasterteachers.Wes houldrewardandrecognizeourbestteachers.(Applause.)Andaswerewardthe m,weshouldquicklyandfairlyremovethosefewwhodon’’’’tmeasureup,andweshouldchallengemoreofourfinestyoungpeopletoconsiderteachingasacaree r.Third,wemustdomoretohelpallourchildrenread.Fortypercent--fortypercent --ofour8-year-oldscannotreadontheirown.That’’’’swhywehavejustlaunched theAmericaReadsinitiative--tobuildacitizenarmyofonemillionvolunteertut orstomakesureeverychildcanreadindependentlybytheendofthe3rdgrade.We willusethousandsofAmeriCorpsvolunteerstomobilizethiscitizenarmy.Wew antatleast100,000collegestudentstohelp.AndtonightIampleasedthat60colle gepresidentshaveansweredmycall,pledgingthatthousandsoftheirwork-stud ystudentswillserveforoneyearasreadingtutors.(Applause.) Thisisalsoachallengetoeveryteacherandeveryprincipal.Youmustusethesetu torstohelpstudentsread.Anditisespeciallyachallengetoourparents.Youmustr eadwithyourchildreneverynight.Thisleadstothefourthprinciple:Learningbeginsinthefirstdaysoflife.Scientist sarenowdiscoveringhowyoungchildrendevelopemotionallyandintellectuall yfromtheirveryfirstdays,andhowimportantitisforparentstobeginimmediatel ytalking,singing,evenreadingtotheirinfants.TheFirstLadyhasspentyearswri tingaboutthisissue,studyingit.AndsheandIaregoingtoconveneaWhiteHouse ConferenceonEarlyLearningandtheBrainthisspring,toexplorehowparentsa ndeducatorscanbestusethesestartlingnewfindings. Wealreadyknowweshouldstartteachingchildrenbeforetheystartschool.That’’’’swhythisbalancedbudgetexpandsHeadStarttoonemillionchildrenby20XX.(Applause.)AndthatiswhytheVicePresidentandMrs.Gorewillhosttheiran nualfamilyconferencethisJuneonwhatwecandotomakesurethatparentsarean activepartoftheirchildren’’’’slearningallthewaythroughschool. They’’’’vedoneagreatdealtohighlighttheimportanceoffamilyinourlife,andn owthey’’’’returningtheirattenti ontogettingmoreparentsinvolvedintheirchild ren’’’’slearningallthewaythroughschool.AndIthankyou,Mr.VicePresident,a ndIthankyouespecially,Tipper,forwhatyoudo.(Applause.)Fifth,everystateshouldgiveparentsthepowertochoosetherightpublicschoolf ortheirchildren.Theirrighttochoosewillfostercompetitionandinnovationthat canmakepublicschoolsbetter.Weshouldalsomakeitpossibleformoreparentsa ndteacherstostartcharterschools,schoolsthatsetandmeetthehigheststandard s,andexistonlyaslongastheydo.OurplanwillhelpAmericatocreate3,000ofthe secharterschoolsbythenextcentury--nearlyseventimesasthereareinthecount rytoday--sothatparentswillhaveevenmorechoicesinsendingtheirchildrentot hebestschools.Sixth:Charactereducationmustbetaughtinourschools.Wemustteachourchild rentobegoodcitizens.(Applause.)Andwemustcontinuetopromoteorderandd iscipline,supportingcommunitiesthatintroduceschooluniforms,imposecurf ewsenforcetruancylaws,removedisruptivestudentsfromtheclassroom,andh avezerotoleranceforgunsanddrugsinschool.(Applause.)Seventh:Wecannotexpectourchildrentoraisethemselvesupinschoolsthatarel iterallyfallingdown.Withthestudentpopulationatanall-timehigh,andrecordnumbersofschoolbuildingsfallingintodisrepair,thishasnowbecomeaseriousn ationalconcern.Therefore,mybudgetincludesanewinitiative--$5billiontohel pcommunitiesfinance$20billioninschoolconstructionoverthenextfouryears .(Applause.)Eighth:Wemustmakethe13thand14thyearsofeducation--atleasttwoyearsofc ollege--justasuniversalinAmericabythe21stcenturyasahighschooleducatio nistoday,andwemustopenthedoorsofcollegetoAmericans.(Applause.) Todothat,IproposeAmerica’’’’sHOPEScholarship,basedonGeorgia’’’’spion eeringprogram:twoyearsofa$1,500taxcreditforcollegetuition,enoughtopay forthetypicalcommunitycollege.Ialsoproposeataxdeductionofupto$10,000 ayearforalltuitionafterhighschool;anexpandedIRAyoucanwithdrawfromta xfreeforeducation;andthelargestincreaseinPellGrantscholarshipsin20years .(Applause.)Now,thisplanwillgivemostfamiliestheabilitytopaynotaxesonm oneytheysaveforcollegetuition.Iaskyoutopassit--andgiveeveryAmericanw howorkshardthechancetogotocollege.Ninth:Inthe21stcentury,wemustexpandthefrontiersoflearningacrossalifeti me.Allourpeople,ofwhateverage,musthaveachancetolearnnewskills.Most Americanslivenearacommunitycollege.Theroadsthattakethemtherecanbep athstoabetterfuture.MyG.I.B illforAmerica’’’’sWorkerswilltransformthecon fusingtangleoffederaltrainingprogramsintoasimpleskillgranttogodirectlyin toeligibleworkers’’’’hands.Fortoolong,thisbillhasbeensittingonthatdeskthe rewithoutaction--Iaskyoutopassitnow.Let’’’’sgivemoreofourworkersthe abilitytolearnandtoearnforalifetime.(Applause.)Tenth:sty ear,IchallengedAmericatoconnecteveryclassroomandlibrarytotheInternetb ytheyear2000,sothat,forthefirsttimeinourhistory,childreninthemostisolated ruraltowns,themostcomfortablesuburbs,thepoorestinnercityschools,willha vethesameaccesstothesameuniverseofknowledge.(Applause.)Thatismypla n--aCalltoActionforAmericanEducation.SomemaysaythatitisunusualforaP residenttopaythiskindofattentiontoeducation.Somemaysayitissimplybecau sethePresidentandhiswonderfulwifehavebeenobsessedwiththissubjectform oreyearsthantheycanrecall.Thatisnotwhatisdrivingtheseproposals. Wemustunderstandthesignificanceofthisendeavor:Oneofthegreatestsource sofourstrengththroughouttheColdWarwasabipartisanforeignpolicy;becaus eourfuturewasatstake,politicsstoppedatthewater’’’’sedge.NowIaskyou--an dIaskallournation’’’’sgovernors;Iaskparents,teachers,andcitizensallacross America--foranewnonpartisancommitmenttoeducation--becauseeducation isacriticalnationalsecurityissueforourfuture,andpoliticsmuststopatthescho olhousedoor.(Applause.)ToprepareAmericaforthe21stcenturywemustharnessthepowerfulforcesofsc ienceandtechnologytobenefitallAmericans.ThisisthefirstStateoftheUnionc arriedliveinvideoovertheInternet.Butw e’’’’veonlybeguntospreadthebenefit sofatechnologyrevolutionthatshouldbecomethemodernbirthrightofeverycit izen.Ourefforttoconnecteveryclassroomisjustthebeginning.Now,weshouldconn ecteveryhospitaltotheInternet,sothatdoctorscaninstantlysharedataaboutthei rpatientswiththebestspecialistsinthefield.AndIchallengetheprivatesectorto nighttostartbyconnectingeverychildren’’’’shospitalassoonaspossible,sothat achildinbedcanstayintouchwithschool,familyandfriends.Asickchildneedno longerbeachildalone.(Applause.) WemustbuildthesecondgenerationoftheInternetsothatourleadinguniversitie sandnationallaboratoriescancommunicateinspeeds1,000timesfasterthantod ay,todevelopnewmedicaltreatments,newsourcesofenergy,newwaysofworki ngtogether.Butwecannotstopthere.AstheInternetbecomesournewtownsquare,acomput erineveryhome--ateacherofallsubjects,aconnectiontoallcultures--thiswilln olongerbeadream,butanecessity.Andoverthenextdecade,thatmustbeourgoal .(Applause.)Wemustcontinuetoexploretheheavens--pressingonwiththeMarsprobesandt heinternationalspacestation,bothofwhichwillhavepracticalapplicationsforo ureverydayliving. Wemustspeedtheremarkableadvancesinmedicalscience.Thehumangenome projectisnowdecodingthegeneticmysteriesoflife.Americanscientistshavedi scoveredgeneslinkedtobreastcancerandovariancancer,andmedicationthatst opsastrokeinprogressandbeginstoreverseitseffect,andtreatmentsthatdramat icallylengthenthelivesofpeoplewithHIVandAIDS.SinceItookoffice,fundingforAIDSresearchattheNationalInstitutesofHealth hasincreaseddramatically--to$1.5billion.Withnewresources,NIHwillnowb ecomethemostpowerfuldiscoveryengineforanAIDSvaccine,workingwithot herscientiststofinallyendthethreatofAIDS.(Applause.)Rememberthatevery year--everyyearwemoveupthediscoveryofanAIDSvaccinewillsavemillions oflivesaroundtheworld.Wemustreinforceourcommitmenttomedicalscience .ToprepareAmericaforthe21stcentury,wemustbuildstrongerfamilies.Overth epastfouryears,theFamilyandMedicalLeavelawhashelpedmillionsofAmeri canstotaketimeofftobewiththeirfamilies.Withnewpressuresonpeopleinthe waytheyworkandlive,Ibelievewemustexpandfamilyleavesothatworkerscan taketimeoffforteacherconferencesandachild’’’’smedicalcheckup.Weshould passflex-time,soworkerscanchoosetobepaidforovertimeinincomeortradeiti nfortimeofftobewiththeirfamilies.(Applause.)Wemustcontinue--wemustcontinue,stepbystep,togivemorefamiliesaccesst oaffordable,qualityhealthcare.FortymillionAmericansstilllackhealthinsura nce.Tenmillionchildrenstilllackhealthinsurance--80percentofthemhavewor kingparentswhopaytaxes.Thatiswrong.(Applause.) Mybalancedbudgetwillextendhealthcoveragetoupto5millionofthosechildre n.Sincenearlyhalfofallchildrenwholosetheirinsurancedosobecausetheirpar entsloseorchangeajob,mybudgetwillalsoensurethatpeoplewhotemporarilyl osetheirjobscanstillaffordtokeeptheirhealthinsurance.Nochildshouldbewit。
美国克林顿演讲系列之克林顿—1997年第二次就职演讲(中英对照)
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美国克林顿演讲系列之克林顿—1997年第二次就职演讲(中英对照)January 20, 1997My fellow citizens:At this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs, a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise.The promise of America was born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge of slavery.Then, in turmoil and triumph, that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century.And what a century it has been. America became the world’s mightiest industrial power; saved the world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war; and time and again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the blessings of liberty.Along the way, Americans produced a great middle class and security in old age; built unrivaled centers of learning and opened public schools to all; split the atom and explored the heavens; invented the computer and the microchip; and deepened the wellspring of justice by making a revolution in civil rights for African Americans and all minorities, and extending the circle of citizenship, opportunity and dignity to women.Now, for the third time, a new century is upon us, and another time to choose. We began the 19th century with a choice, to spread our nation from coast to coast. We began the 20th century with a choice, to harness the Industrial Revolution to our values of free enterprise, conservation, and human decency. Those choices made all the difference.At the dawn of the 21st century a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and, yes, to form a more perfect union.When last we gathered, our march to this new future seemed less certain than it does today. We vowed then to set a clear course to renew our nation.In these four years, we have been touched by tragedy, exhilarated by challenge, strengthened by achievement. America stands alone as the world’s indispensable nation. Once again, our economy is the strongest on Earth. Once again, we are building stronger families, thriving communities, better educational opportunities, a cleaner environment. Problems that once seemed destined to deepen now bend to our efforts: our streets are safer and record numbers of our fellow citizens have moved from welfare to work.And once again, we have resolved for our time a great debate over the role of government. Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We,-the American people, we are the solution. Our founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.As times change, so government must change. We need a new government for a new century - humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us, but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves; a government that is smaller, lives within its means, and does more with less. Yet where it can stand up for our values and interests in the world, and where it can give Americans the power to make a real difference in their everyday lives, government should do more, not less. The preeminent mission of our new government is to give all Americans an opportunity,- not a guarantee, but a real opportunity to build better lives.Beyond that, my fellow citizens, the future is up to us. Our founders taught us that the preservation of our liberty and our union depends upon responsible citizenship. And we need a new sense of responsibility for a new century. There is work to do, work that government alone cannot do: teaching children to read; hiring people off welfare rolls; coming out from behind locked doors and shuttered windows to help reclaim our streets from drugs and gangs and crime; taking time out of our own lives to serve others.Each and every one of us, in our own way, must assume personal responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our neighbors and our nation. Our greatest responsibility is to embrace a new spirit of community for a new century. For any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as one America.The challenge of our past remains the challenge of our future, will we be one nation, one people, with one common destiny, or not? Will we all come together, or come apart?The divide of race has been America’s constant curse. And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different. These forces have nearly destroyed our nation in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. And they torment the lives of millions in fractured nations all around the world.These obsessions cripple both those who hate and, of course, those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become. We cannot, we will not, succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere. We shall overcome them. And we shall replace them with the generous spirit of a people who feel at home with one another.Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.As this new era approaches we can already see its broad outlines. Ten years ago, the Internet was the mystical province of physicists; today, it is a commonplace encyclopedia for millions of schoolchildren. Scientists now are decoding the blueprint of human life. Cures for our most feared illnesses seem close at hand.The world is no longer divided into two hostile camps. Instead, now we are building bonds with nations that once were our adversaries. Growing connections of commerce and culture give us a chance to lift the fortunes and spirits of people the world over. And for the very first time in all of history, more people on this planet live under democracy than dictatorship.My fellow Americans, as we look back at this remarkable century, we may ask, can we hope not just to follow, but even to surpass the achievements of the 20th century in America and to avoid the awful bloodshed that stained its legacy? To that question, every American here and every American in our land today must answer a resounding "Yes."This is the heart of our task. With a new vision of government, a new sense of responsibility, a new spirit of community, we will sustain America’s journey. The promise we sought in a new land we will find again in a land of new promise.In this new land, education will be every citizen’s most prized possession. Our schools will have the highest standards in the world, igniting the spark of possibility in the eyes of every girl and every boy. And the doors of higher education will be open to all. The knowledge and power of the Information Age will be within reach not just of the few, but of every classroom, every library, every child. Parents and children will have time not only to work, but to read and play together. And the plans they make at their kitchen table will be those of a better home, a better job, the certain chance to go to college.Our streets will echo again with the laughter of our children, because no one will try to shoot them or sell them drugs anymore. Everyone who can work, will work, with today’s permanent under class part of tomorrow’s growing middle class. New miracles of medicine at last will reach not only those who can claim care now, but the children and hardworking families too long denied.We will stand mighty for peace and freedom, and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Ports and airports, farms and factories will thrive with trade and innovation and ideas. And the world’s greatest democracy will lead a whole world of democracies.Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values. A nation where our grandparents have secure retirement and health care, and their grandchildren know we have made the reforms necessary to sustain those benefits for their time. A nation that fortifies the world’s most productive economy even as it protects the great natural bounty of our water, air, and majestic land.And in this land of new promise, we will have reformed our politics so that the voice of the people will always speak louder than the din of narrow interests, regaining the participation and deserving the trust of all Americans.Fellow citizens, let us build that America, a nation ever moving forward toward realizing the full potential of all its citizens. Prosperity and power, yes, they are important, and we must maintain them. But let us never forget: The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world’s wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.Thirty-four years ago, the man whose life we celebrate today spoke to us down there, at the other end of this Mall, in words that moved the conscience of a nation. Like a prophet of old, he told of his dream that one day America would rise up and treat all its citizens as equals before the law and in the heart. Martin Luther King’s dream was the American Dream. His quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live out our true creed. Our history has been built on such dreams and labors. And by our dreams and labors we will redeem the promise of America in the 21st century.To that effort I pledge all my strength and every power of my office. I ask the members of Congress here to join in that pledge. The American people returned to office a President of one party and a Congress of another. Surely, they did not do this to advance the politics of petty bickering and extreme partisanship they plainly deplore. No, they call on us instead to be repairers of the breach, and to move on with America’s mission.America demands and deserves big things from us,- and nothing big ever came from being small. Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing the end of his own life. He said, "It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division."Fellow citizens, we must not waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same journey of our lives, and our journey, too, will come to an end. But the journey of our America must go on.And so, my fellow Americans, we must be strong, for there is much to dare. The demands of our time are great and they are different. Let us meet them with faith and courage, with patience and a grateful and happy heart. Let us shape the hope of this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our bridge. A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American to cross over to a blessed land of new promise.May those generations whose faces we cannot yet see, whose names we may never know, say of us here that we led our beloved land into a new century with the American Dream alive for all her children; with the American promise of a more perfect union a reality for all her people; with America’s bright flame of freedom spreading throughout all the world.From the height of this place and the summit of this century, let us go forth. May God strengthen our hands for the good work ahead, and always, always bless our America.译文:同胞们:今天,我们庆祝振兴美国这件令人感到异常惊奇的事。
克林顿在清华就艾滋病等问题演讲全文
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克林顿在清华就艾滋病等问题演讲全文各位早上好,我今天非常高兴能够参加此次国际研讨会,非常感谢清华大学的校长,各级各位,负责此次会议的教授们。
在此,我感谢清华大学在有关HIV艾滋病毒方面的教育工作,而且我知道此次研讨会非常重要,这是一个标志,它标志出对于中国的未来来说,对抗击艾滋病毒非常重要。
在此,我要感谢何大一,我的同事今天到此,并且致力于抗击艾滋病毒的工作。
在1998年,何大一教授和我都是马萨诸塞州技术方面的一个会议发言人,当时我是主席,他被《时代杂志》定为封面人物。
在发言中,何教授提到要充分利用科学的先进发展,要充分利用政府、学术界,以及社会的力量来使得艾滋病得以遏制。
如果能够最终抗击艾滋病的话,何教授肯定是英雄之一。
在此,我想祝贺戴蒙艾滋病研究中心的诸位同事,要感谢中国医学科学院,中国协和医科大学、清华大学、武汉大学的各位学术界认为,在这儿,我也要说,这些大学非常了不起,举办了此次的峰会研讨会,在座的我也看到有一些学生,因为你们的未来会更多的受到我们今天所强调的内容的影响,就是要抗击艾滋病毒,艾滋病。
在1998年我作为总统到了中国,我知道中美之间的关系在全球的外交方面是极端重要的,我们能够有21世纪的和平和繁荣,并且使得大家在和平的环境中生活是非常重要的。
我认为,当我在总统就任期间,中美之间的合作是非常好的,我们有很多的文化交流,民间也进行了很多合作,中国也加入了WTO。
就安全方面,我们就核不扩散,大规模武器等方面取得了很多共识。
但是我认为,这是我们应该合作的起点,我们有更多的工作要做。
我们的合作是非常重要的,我们现在怎么来描述一个非常大的社会呢?大部分的学生会说全球化,现在的时代是全球化的时代。
他们说的是对的,可是我希望他们要看到另一点,就是相互依赖。
他们全球的贸易系统,全球的财务市场,有超过一万亿的美元跨越边界,流通全球。
我们与全球的关系,不仅仅是在经济领域。
互相依赖也指我们可以互相逃脱各自的命运,无论这个命运是好还是坏,E-mail使我们保持联系,美国、中国的学生可以跨越太平洋,大西洋,这样的跨越几个小时就可以做到。
克林顿:1997年联邦国情咨文演说
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THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of the 105th Congress, distinguished guests, and my fellow Americans: I think I should start by saying, thanks for inviting me back. (Applause.) I come before you tonight with a challenge as great as any in our peacetime history, and a plan of action to meet that challenge, to prepare our people for the bold new world of the 21st century. We have much to be thankful for. With four years of growth, we have won back the basic strength of our economy. With crime and welfare rolls declining, we are winning back our optimism, the enduring faith that we can master any difficulty. With the Cold War receding and global commerce at record levels, we are helping to win unrivaled peace and prosperity all across the world. My fellow Americans, the state of our union is strong. (Applause.) But now we must rise to the decisive moment, to make a nation and a world better than any we have ever known. The new promise of the global economy, the Information Age, unimagined new work, life-enhancing technology —— all these are ours to seize. That is our honor and our challenge. We must be shapers of events, not observers. For if we do not act, the moment will pass —— and we willlose the best possibilities of our future. We face no imminent threat, but we do have an enemy —— the enemy of our time is inaction. So, tonight, I issue a call to action —— action by this Congress, action by our states, by our people, to prepare America for the 21st century. Action to keep our economy and our democracy strong and working for all our people; action to strengthen education and harness the forces of technology and science; action to build stronger families and stronger communities and a safer environment; action to keep America the world's strongest force for peace, freedom and prosperity. And above all, action to build a more perfect union here at home. The spirit we bring to our work will make all the difference. We must be committed to the pursuit of opportunity for all Americans, responsibility from all Americans, in a community of all Americans. And we must be committed to a new kind of government —— not to solve all our problems for us, but to give our people —— all our people —— the tools they need to make the most of their own lives. And we must work together. The people of this nation elected us all. They want us to be partners, not partisans. They put us all right here in the same boat, they gave us all oars, and they told us to row. Now, here is the direction I believe we should take. First, we must move quickly to complete the unfinished business of our country —— to balance our budget, renew our democracy, and finish the job of welfare reform. Over the last four years, we have brought new economic growth by investing in our people, expanding our exports,cutting our deficits, creating over 11 million new jobs, a four-year record. (Applause.) Now we must keep our economy the strongest in the world.We here tonight have an historic opportunity. Let this Congress be the Congress that finally balances the budget. (Applause.) In two days, I will propose a detailed plan to balance the budget by 2002. This plan will balance the budget and invest in our people while protecting Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment. It will balance the budget and build on the Vice President's efforts to make our government work better, even as it costs less. It will balance the budget and provide middle class tax relief to pay for education and health care, to help to raise a child, to buy and sell a home. Balancing the budget requires only your vote and my signature. It does not require us to rewrite our Constitution.(Applause.) I believe it is both unnecessary and unwise to adopt a balanced budget amendment that could cripple our country in time of crisis, and force unwanted results, such as judges halting Social Security checks or increasing taxes. Let us at least agree, we should not pass any measure —— no measure should be passed that threatens Social Security.(Applause.) Whatever your view on that, we all must concede we don't need a constitutional amendment, we need action. (Applause.) Whatever our differences, we should balance the budget now. And then, for the long-term health of our society, we must agree to a bipartisan process to preserve Social Security and reform Medicare for the long run, so that these fundamental programs will be as strong for our children as they are for our parents. And let me say something that's not in my script tonight. I know this is not going to be easy. But I really believe one of the reasons the American people gave me a second term was to take the tough decisions in the next four years that will carry our country through the next 50 years. I know it is easier for me than for you to say or do. But another reason I was elected is to support all of you, without regard to party, to give you what is necessary to join in these decisions. We owe it to our country and to our future. (Applause.) Our second piece of unfinished business requires us to commit ourselves tonight, before the eyes of America, to finally enacting bipartisan campaign finance reform. (Applause.) Now, Senators McCain and Feingold, Representatives Shays and Meehan, have reached across party lines here to craft tough and fair reform. Their proposal would curb spending, reduce the role of special interests, create a level playing field between challengers and incumbents, and ban contributions from noncitizens, all corporate sources, and the other large soft money contributions that both parties receive. You know and I know that this can be delayed. And you know and I know the delay will mean the death of reform. So let's set our own deadline. Let's work together to write bipartisan campaign finance reform into law and pass McCain-Feingold by the day we celebrate the birth of our democracy —— July the 4th. (Applause.) There is a third piece of unfinished business. Over the last four years, we moved a record 2.25 million people off the welfare rolls. Then last year, Congress enacted landmark welfare reform legislation, demanding that all able-bodied recipients assume the responsibility of moving from welfare to work. Now each and every one of us has to fulfill our responsibility —— indeed, our moral obligation —— to make sure that people who now must work, can work. (Applause.) Now we must act to meet a new goal: 2 million more people off the welfare rolls by the year 2000. Here is my plan: Tax credits and other incentives for businesses that hire people off welfare; incentives for job placement firms and states to create more jobs for welfare recipients; training, transportation, and child care to help people go to work. Now I challenge every state: Turn those welfare checks into private sector paychecks. I challenge every religious congregation, every community nonprofit, every business to hire someone off welfare. And I'd like to say especially to every employer in our country who ever criticized the old welfare system, you can't blame that old system anymore, we have torn it down. Now do your part. Give someone on welfare the chance to go to work. (Applause.) Tonight, I am pleased to announce that five major corporations —— Sprint, Monsanto, UPS, Burger King and United Airlines —— will be the first to join in a new national effort to marshal America's businesses, large and small, to create jobs so that people can move from welfare to work. (Applause.) We passed welfare reform. All of you know I believe we were right to do it. But no one can walk out of this chamber with a clear conscience unless you are prepared to finish the job. (Applause.) And we must join together to do something else, too —— something both Republican and Democratic governors have asked us to do —— to restore basic health and disability benefits when misfortune strikes immigrants who came to this country legally, who work hard, pay taxes and obey the law. To do otherwise is simply unworthy of a great nation of immigrants. (Applause.) Now, looking ahead, the greatest step of all —— the high threshold of the future we now must cross —— and my number one priority for the next four years is to ensure that all Americans have the best education in the world.(Applause.) Let's work together to meet these three goals: Every 8-year-old must be able to read; every 12-year-old must be able to log on to the Internet; every 18-year-old must be able to go to college; and every adult American must be able to keep on learning for a lifetime. (Applause.) My balanced budget makes an unprecedented commitment to these goals —— $51 billion next year. But far more than money is required. I have a plan, a Call to Action for American Education, based on these 10 principles. First, a national crusade for education standards —— not federal government standards, but national standards,representing what all our students must know to succeed in the knowledge economy of the 21st century. Every state and school must shape the curriculum to reflect these standards, and train teachers to lift students up to them. To help schools meet the standards and measure their progress, we will lead an effort over the next two years to develop national tests of student achievement in reading and math. Tonight, I issue a challenge to the nation: Every state should adopt high national standards, and by 1999, every state should test every 4th grader in reading and every 8th grader in math to make sure these standards are met.(Applause.) Raising standards will not be easy, and some of our children will not be able to meet them at first. The point is not to put our children down, but to lift them up. Good tests will show us who needs help, what changes in teaching to make,and which schools need to improve. They can help us to end social promotion. For no child should move from grade schoolto junior high, or junior high to high school until he or she is ready. Last month, our Secretary of Education Dick Riley and I visited Northern Illinois, where 8th grade students from 20 school districts, in a project aptly called “First in the World,” took the Third International Math and Science Study. That's a test that reflects the world-class standards our children must meet for the new era. And those students in Illinois tied for first in the world in science and came in second in math. Two of them, Kristin Tanner and Chris Getsla, are here tonight, along with their teacher, Sue Winski; they're up there with the First Lady. And they prove that when we aim high and challenge our students, they will be the best in the world. Let's give them a hand. Stand up, please. (Applause.) Second, to have the best schools, we must have the best teachers. Most of us in this chamber would not be here tonightwithout the help of those teachers. I know that I wouldn't be here. For years, many of our educators, led by North Carolina's Governor Jim Hunt and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, have worked very hard to establish nationally accepted credentials for excellence in teaching. Just 500 of these teachers have been certified since 1995. My budget will enable 100,000 more to seek national certification as master teachers. We should reward and recognize our best teachers. (Applause.) And as we reward them, we should quickly and fairly remove those few who don't measure up, and we should challenge more of our finest young people to consider teaching as a career.。
2009年7月27日希拉里-美中战略与经济对话会议开幕辞3700字
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(视频+中英文本)2009年7月27日希拉里-美中战略与经济对话会议开幕辞收藏∙分类: 口译资料∙发布时间: 2009/8/8 12:29:00∙阅读(1568) | 评论(0)推荐出席美中战略与经济对话(U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue)的美方特别代表希拉里∙克林顿(Hillary Rodham Clinton)2009年7月27日在对话全体会议上致开幕辞。
以下是克林顿国务卿讲话的全文。
Remarks at Plenary Session of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic DialogueHillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of StateWashington, DCJuly 27, 2009希拉里∙克林顿国务卿在美中战略与经济对话全体会议上发表的讲话华盛顿哥伦比亚特区2009年7月27日Good morning. And Zhongxing Huanyin.早上好。
[用中文说]衷心欢迎。
It is a privilege to open this inaugural meeting of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the United States and China. I am especially pleased to join my co-chair, Secretary Geithner, and to welcome State Councilor Dai and Vice Premier Wang. I look forward to resuming the productive discussions I had with Councilor Dai, President Hu, and Premier Wen on my trip to China in February, and to build on President Obama and President Hu’s meeting in London.十分荣幸能在美中两国之间的战略与经济对话首次会议开幕式上致辞。
克林顿演讲英汉对照版
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Thank you for the key to your city and for this magnificent welcome. Here in this ancient capital, China seems very young to me tonight, blessed with both a proud history and the promise of tomorrow. Xi’an was perhaps the most open and culturally advanced city in the entire world. From this place, trade routes extended through Asia to Europe and Africa. And to this place, great thinkers came, spreading philosophy and new ideas that have contributed to the greatness of china.谢谢你们赠予的城市之匙和这个盛大的欢迎仪式。
在这古老的城市,中国今晚显得分外年轻,它天赐般的拥有让人骄傲的历史和美好的未来。
西安曾经是世界文化史上极为开放和发达的城市。
从这个地方,贸易之路延伸到了亚洲,通向了欧洲和非洲。
很多大思想家莅临了这座城市,传播哲学以及新思想,这些观念让中国变得强大起来。
I look forward to seeing the terracotta warriors, the old city walls, the Muslim quarter. I look forward to learning more about china's great contributions to the store of human knowledge from medicine and printing, to mathematics and astronomy. Discoveries on which so much of the whole world progress is based and I want to see more of the new nation you are building on a scale even the emperors could not have foreseen.明天,我期待着看到兵马俑、古城墙和穆斯林广场。
克林顿就职演讲稿(1993)
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January 20, 1993My fellow citizens:Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the 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 America.When our founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change. 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 it means to be an American.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.Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among our people.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.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.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.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.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.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.From our revolution, 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.Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.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.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.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 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.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.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.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.To renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well 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.Today, as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less stable. Communism's collapse has called forth old animosities and new dangers. Clearly America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make.While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize the opportunities, of this new world. Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us.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.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.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.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.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.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.And so, my fellow Americans, 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."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.Thank you, and God bless you all.参考中文翻译:美国复兴的新时代比尔•克林顿第一次就职演讲星期三,1993年1月20日同胞们:今天,我们庆祝美国复兴的奇迹。
克林顿总统1993国情咨文
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克林顿总统文发表:美国联邦政府新闻署/1993年1月17日;学术交流网/美国历史文献/2004年1月27日转发转发说明:该国情咨文为笔者2000年初运用自动翻译器中英对照的文本,其中有些译文显然有误,这里未加改动,请读者对于译文自行校正。
State Of The Union Address 1993Mr. President, Mr. Speaker:先生总统,先生议长:When Presidents speak to theCongress and the nation from thispodium, they typically comment onthe full range of challenges andopportunities that face us. Butthese are not ordinary times. Forall the many tasks that requireour attention, one calls on us tofocus, unite, and act. Together,we must make our economy thriveonce again.当总统和从这个墩座国会和国家谈话的时候,他们典型提出对面对我们的挑战和机会的完整范围的看法.但是这些并非普通是时代.一请我们给所有的需要我们注意的很多任务聚焦,结合,和行动.一起,我们必须使我们经济再一次健康成长.It has been too long ? at leastthree decades ? since a Presidenthas challenged Americans to joinhim on our great nationaljourney, not merely to consumethe bounty of today but to investfor a much greater one tomorrow.由于一个总统向美国人挑战要求在我们伟大国家旅途中加入他不仅仅消耗今天的慷慨但是明天为一大得多一投资,至少三十年它已经太要很长时间.Nations, like individuals, mustultimately decide how they wishto conduct themselves ? how theywish to be thought of by thosewith whom they live, and, later,how they wish to be judged byhistory. Like every man andwoman, they must decide whetherthey are prepared to rise to theoccasions history presents them.像个体国家必须最终决定怎样他们向他们自己-其他们提出心愿的他们希望被以历史来判断的行为提出心愿,的被那些用他们过谁和以后认为.像每一个男人和妇女,他们必须决定是否他们是有准备的历史引见他们的出来应付局面.We have always been a people of youthful energy anddaring spirit. And at this historic moment, ascommunism has fallen, as freedom is spreading aroundthe world, as a global economy is taking shape beforeour eyes, Americans have called for change ? and now itis up to those of us in this room to deliver.我们总是已是一青年能源和勇敢的精神的人们.和在这个方面历史性时刻,当共产主义已经降下时,当自由是在全世界扩展时,当一全球性经济是在我们眼睛的前面成型时,美国人已要求改变在这履行的空间中和现在它算计我们的那些Our nation needs a new direction. Tonight, I present toyou our comprehensive plan to set our nation on thatnew course.我们国家需要一新指挥.今晚,我提交我们全面对那新途径给予我们国家的计划对你.I believe we will find our new direction in the basic values that brought us here: opportunity, individual responsibility, community, work, family, and faith. Weneed to break the old habits of both political partiesin Washington. We must say that there can be no more something for nothing, and we are all in this together.我相信我们将找出我们在基本价值观中那个把我们带到这里新指挥: 机会,个人责任,社区,工作,家庭和信心.我们需要使两个在华盛顿身上政党老习惯改掉.我们必须说那里能平白无故不是更某样东西,和我们一起这个精疲力竭.The conditions which brought us to this point are well known. Two decades of low productivity and stagnant wages; persistent unemployment and underemployment;years of huge government deficits and declininginvestment in our future; exploding health care costs,and lack of coverage; legions of poor children;educational and job training opportunities inadequateto the demands of a high wage, high growth economy. Fortoo long we drifted without a strong sense of purpose, responsibility or community, and our political systemtoo often was paralyzed by special interest groups,partisan bickering and the sheer complexity of our problems.适合这点好知道给带来我们状况.两几十年的低生产力和停滞工资; 持续不断失业和就业不足;多年的巨大政府赤字和拒绝在我们未来上的投资;推翻保健成本和缺少覆盖范围;众多的可怜孩子;有教育意义和让对一高工资需求不够条件,高机会生长工作成长经济.太长时间我们没有一目的,责任或者社区的强烈感觉漂移,和太常常特殊利益个人多组我们问题,支持党派利益争吵和完全是复杂使我们政治上系统麻痹.I know we can do better, because ours remains thegreatest nation on earth, the world's strongesteconomy, and the world's only military superpower. Ifwe have the vision, the will and the heart to make the changes we must, we will enter the 21st century with possibilities our parents could not even have imagined, having secured the American dream for ourselves andfuture generations.我知道因为我们的依然是世界上最伟大民族,世界的最坚强经济和世界的仅仅军事极巨大的力量,我们能更好些做.如果我们有视力,意愿和心脏要有改变,我们必须第21世纪,我们将随着可能性进入,我们父母不能甚至已设想已经使自己美国梦和将来代牢固的.I well remember, twelve years ago Ronald Reagan stoodat this podium and told the American people that if our debt were stacked in dollar bills, the stack wouldreach sixty-seven miles into space. Today, that stack would reach two hundred and sixty-seven miles.我进入空间好记得十二年以前罗纳德里根在这个墩座旁站立和告诉美国人们如果我们债务在美元单子中被堆积,堆将六十七英里达到. 今天,那堆将267英里达到.I tell you this not to assign blame for this problem. There is plenty of blame to go around ? in bothbranches of the government and both parties. The timefor blame has come to an end. I came here to accept responsibility; I want you to accept responsibility for the future of this country, and if we do it right, Idon't care who gets the credit for it.我告诉你这个不要分配这问题的责任.有责备大量,在在两方面同样地政府的分枝和双方中到处走动.为责备时间已结束.我这里来承认责任;我想要你为这国家的未来负责任,和如果我们正确做它,我不在乎谁因它而得到好评.Economic Plan经济上的计划Our plan has four fundamental components: First, it reverses our economic decline, by jump-starting theeconomy in the short term and investing in our people, their jobs and their incomes in the long term.我们计划有四个基本成分:首先,它通过跳使短期节约开始从长远的观点看和投资到我们人们,他们的工作和他们的收入改变我们经济上的倾斜.Second, it changes the rhetoric of the past into the actions of the present, by honoring work and familiesin every part of our lives.第二,它通过兑现在每一个部分我们生活中工作和家庭使过去的华丽的辞藻变为现在的行动.Third, it substantially reduces the federal deficit, honestly and credibly.第三它本质上诚实和可信地减少联合的落后.Finally, it earns the trust of the American people by paying for these plans first with cuts in governmentwaste and inefficiency -- cuts, not gimmicks, in government spending ? and by fairness, for a change, in the way the burden is borne.最后,它通过首先为这些计划付出代价随着政府废物和无效率--切口,不秘密装置上的伤口在政府开销中和经过公正以重担是承受方式换换花样获得美国人们的信任.Tonight, I want to talk about what government can do, because I believe our government must do more for thehard-working people who pay its way. But let me sayfirst: government cannot do this alone. The privatesector is the engine of economic growth in America. And every one of us can be an engine of change in our own lives. We've got to give people more opportunity, butwe must also demand more responsibility in return.今晚,我想要谈因为我相信我们政府必须做为不用举债的勤劳的人们更多,政府罐所做的.但是让我说第一:政府不能做单独这个.私营部分是在美洲中经济上的成长的引擎.和我们的每个能是一我们自己生活的改变的引擎.我们必须给人们更多机会,但是我们必须也要求作为回报更多责任.Creating Jobs建立工作Our immediate priority is to create jobs, now. Some say we're in a recovery. Well, we all hope so. But we're simply not creating jobs. And there is no recoveryworth its salt that does not begin with new jobs.我们立即优先权是要现在建立工作.某些说我们是在一恢复中.好,我们完全希望那样.但是我们简单是不要建立工作.和事实上没有不以新职业开始的称职的恢复.To create jobs and guarantee a strong recovery, I callon Congress to enact an immediate jobs package of over30 billion dollars. We will put people to work rightnow and create half a million jobs: jobs that willrebuild our highways and airports, renovate housing,bring new life to our rural towns, and spread hope and opportunity among our nation's youth with almost700,000 jobs for them this summer alone. And I invite America's business leaders to join us in this effort,so that together we can create a million summer jobs in cities and poor rural areas for our young people.建立工作和保证一强烈恢复,我呼吁国会制定一立即工作包超过30十亿美元.我们将放现在工作人们和建立五十万工作:今年夏天单独将重建我们公路和机场的工作为他们修缮住房,使新生活进入我们农村城镇,随着几乎700,000工作和传布在我们国家的青春中间希望和机会.和我邀请美洲的生意领袖和我们一起这努力,因此一起我们能为我们年轻人建立在城市和可怜农村地区中一百万夏天工作.Second, our plan looks beyond today's business cycle, because our aspirations extend into the next century.The heart of our plan deals with the long term. It hasan investment program designed to increase public and private investment in areas critical to our economic future. And it has a deficit reduction program thatwill increase savings available for private sector investment, lower interest rates, decrease thepercentage of the federal budget claimed by interest payments, and decrease the risk of financial market disruptions that could adversely affect the economy.第二,因为持续到下一世纪我们愿望延伸,我们计划超出今天的经济增长和衰退的循环注意.我们计划的中心处理长任期.它有一投资程序被设计增加公共和私有在区域上的投资对我们经济上的未来不可缺少.和它让一将增加存款的赤字减少程序私营部分投资可用,低利率减少经过利率付款要求联合的预算的百分比和减少能不友好地假装经济的财政市场破裂的风险.Over the long run, all this should result in a higherrate of economic growth, improved productivity, higher wages, more high- quality jobs and an improved economic competitive position in the global economy.关于一段较长时间,这一切应该结果是一更高在全球性经济中经济上的成长,改进生产力,更高工资,更多高质量的工作和一改进经济上的竞争性位置率.In order to accomplish public investment and deficit reduction, government spending is being cut and taxesare being increased. Our spending cuts were carefully thought through to try to minimize any economic impact,to capture the peace dividend for investment purposes,and to switch the balance in the budget fromconsumption to investment. The tax increases andspending cuts were both designed to assure that thecost of this historic program to face and deal with our problems is borne by those who could most readilyafford that cost.为了完成公共投资和赤字减少,政府开销被削减和增税.我们开销切口仔细被想清楚设法把任何经济上的冲击减到最低限度,为了投资目的捕获和平股息和从消耗到投资使在预算中平衡转换到.税增加和开销切口在两方面同样地的目的是保证能最立即出得起那成本的那些负担这朝和处理我们问题历史性程序的费用.Our plan is designed to improve the health of American business through lower interest rates, improved infrastructure, better trained workers, and a stronger middle class. Because small businesses generate most ofour nation's jobs, our plan includes the boldesttargeted incentives for small business in history. We propose a permanent investment tax credit for small business, and new rewards for entrepreneurs who takerisks. We will give small business access to thebrilliant technologies of our time and to the creditthey need to prosper and flourish.我们计划的目的是通过低利率,改进基础,好trained工人和一更强烈中产阶级改进美国生意的健康.因为小企业产生我们国家的工作的绝大部分,我们计划为小企业在历史中包含最勇敢目标是刺激.我们为小企业和新对冒着危险的企业家的酬谢建议一永久投资课税扣除. 我们将给出和向他们需要信誉繁荣兴旺和健康成长的小企业到我们时间的才华出众技术的通路.With a new network of community development banks, andone billion dollars to make the dream of enterprisezones real, we will begin to bring new hope and newjobs to storefronts and factories from South Boston to South Texas to south-central Los Angeles.随着一企业振兴区的作幻想社区发展银行和十亿美元的新网络真正, 我们将开始向从南波士顿storefronts和工厂去在南方的洛杉矶中部使新希望和新职业进入南得克萨斯州.Our plan invests in our roads, bridges, transitfacilities; in high- speed railways and high-tech information systems; and in the most ambitious environmental clean-up of our time.我们计划投资到我们道路,桥,转运设施;在高度速度轻轨铁路和高技术信息系统中;和在我们时间中最最有抱负环境整洁中.On the edge of the new century, economic growth dependsas never before on opening up new markets overseas. Andso we will insist on fair trade rules in internationalmarkets.在新世纪的边缘,经济上的成长从来没有象这样取决于在海外提供新市场和那样我们将坚持在国际市场中互惠贸易规定.NAFTANAFTAA part of our national economic strategy must be to expand trade on fair terms, including successful completion of the latest round of world trade talks. A North American Free Trade Agreement with appropriate safeguards for workers and the environment. At the same time, we need an aggressive attempt to create thehi-tech jobs of the future; special attention totroubled industries like aerospace and airlines, and special assistance to displaced workers like those inour defense industry.一部分我们国家经济战略一定是扩大有公平,包含世界贸易谈话中最新回合的成功的完成关系贸易.一个适合防护地为工人和环境北美洲的自由贸易协定.同时,我们需要一个侵略性尝试创造嘿未来的技术的工作;特殊对像航空与航天空间和航线烦恼的工业的殷勤和对像那些取代工人在我们防御工业中特殊帮助.I pledge that business, government and labor will work together in a partnership to strengthen America for a change.我保证生意,政府和劳动将一起用一伙伴关系工作换换花样加强美洲.Health Care Reform保健改革But all of our efforts to strengthen the economy willfail unless we take bold steps to reform our healthcare system. America's businesses will never be strong; America's families will never be secure; and America's government will never be solvent until we tackle our health care crisis.但是除非我们采取勇敢步骤改革我们保健制度,全部的我们为加强经济所作的努力将失败.美洲的生意将不是强烈;美洲的家庭将不有把握;和直到我们处理我们保健危机,美洲的政府将不是有支付力.The rising costs and the lack of care are endangeringboth our economy and our lives. Reducing health carecosts will liberate hundreds of billions of dollars for investment and growth and new jobs. Over the long run, reforming health care is essential to reducing ourdeficit and expanding investment.升起成本和缺少照料危害我们经济和我们生活.降低保健成本将以投资和成长和新职业的代价释放美元的几千亿.关于一段较长时间,改革保健是对减少我们落后和膨胀投资极为重要.Later this spring, I will deliver to Congress a comprehensive plan for health care reform that willfinally get costs under control. We will providesecurity to all our families, so that no one will be denied the coverage they need. We will root out fraudand outrageous charges, and make sure that paperwork no longer chokes you or your doctor. And we will maintain American standards ? the highest quality medical carein the world and the choices we demand and deserve. The American people expect us to deal with health care. And we must deal with it now.这个春天的晚些时候,我将把一全面将最后控制住成本的保健改革的计划送给国会.我们将向完全我们家庭提供安全,因此没有人将被拒绝给予他们需要覆盖范围的.我们将连根铲除诈骗和粗暴费用和确保文书工作不再使你或者你的医生窒息.和我们将保持美国标准-在世界上高质量的医疗和我们要求和应受报答的选择美国人们预期我们处理保健.和现在我们必须处理它.Perhaps the most fundamental change our new direction offers is its focus on the future and the investmentswe seek in our children.也许我们新指挥给予的最基本改变是它的有关我们在我们孩子身上寻找未来和投资的焦点.Each day we delay carries a dear cost. Half ourtwo-year-olds don't receive immunizations againstdeadly diseases. Our plan will provide them for every eligible child. And we'll save ten dollars for everyone we'll spend by eliminating preventable childhood diseases.每一天我们推迟射程的一可爱的人估计成本.我们二岁不做的半个受到对着致命疾病使免除.我们计划将向每一个有资格当选的孩子提供他们.和我们将为储存将通过消灭可防止的童年疾病在每个上花费我们十美元的.The Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program willbe expanded so that every expectant mother who needsour help receives it.妇女,幼儿和孩子营养程序将被膨胀,因此每一个需要我们帮助的孕妇收到它.Education教育Head Start ? a program that prepares children forschool ? is a success story. It saves money, but todayit reaches only one-third of all eligible children.Under our plan, we will cover every eligible child. Investing in Head Start and WIC is not only the right thing, it's the smart thing. For every dollar we invest today, we save three tomorrow.先起动-一为孩子做学校的准备的程序是一发迹的故事.它省钱,但是今天它达到所有有资格当选的孩子的仅三分之一.在我们计划下,我们将掩护每一个有资格当选的孩子.投资到先起动和WIC不仅是正确东西,它是聪明的东西.明天我们为每一个今天,我们投的美元保留三.America must ask more of our students, our teachers,and our schools. And we must give them the resourcesthey need to meet high standards.美洲必须问我们学生,我们老师和我们学校的更多.和我们必须给他们他们需要资源遭遇高标准的.We will bring together business and schools toestablish new apprenticeships, and give young peoplethe skills they need today to find productive jobs tomorrow.我们将调和生意和学校建立新学徒身份和给年轻人今天他们需要技术明天找出多产工作的.Lifelong learning will benefit workers throughout their careers. We must create a new unified worker training system, so that workers receive training regardless of why they lost their jobs.毕生学习将有利于在整个他们的职业工人.我们必须建立一新使统一工人训练系统,因此工人不管为什么他们失去工作如何接受训练.Our national service program will make college loans available to all Americans, and challenge them to give something back to their country ? as teachers, police officers, community service workers. This will be an historic change on a scale with the creation of theLand Grant Colleges and the G.I. Bill. A hundred years from now, historians who owe their education to ourplan for national service will salute your vision.我们国家发球程序将使大学借贷变得所有的美国人可用,作为老师, 警察,社区发球工人和向他们挑战要求对他们的国家把某样东西归还.这个将创造土地使用合同Colleges和G.I.比尔地是一有关一刻度历史性改变.从现在一百年,欠向我们国家发球的计划他们的教育的历史学家将向你的视力致意.We believe in jobs, we believe in learning, and webelieve in rewarding work. We believe in restoring the values that make America special.我们信仰工作,我们主张学习,和我们信仰有价值的工作.我们主张交还作美洲特刊的价值观.There is dignity in all work, and there must be dignityfor all workers. To those who heal our sick, care forour children, and do our most tiring and difficultjobs, our new direction makes this solemn commitment:在所有的工作中有尊严,和一定是为所有的工人尊严.向痊愈的那些我们生病,照料我们孩子,和做我们最累人的最和困难工作,我们新指挥作这神圣承诺:By expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, we will make history: We will help reward work for millions ofworking poor Americans. Our new direction aims torealize a principle as powerful as it is simple: If you work full time, you should not be poor.通过膨胀获得所得税信誉,我们将作历史:我们将帮助酬谢为大量的加工可怜美国人工作.我们新指挥打算意识到一像它是简单一样强大原理:如果你工作全时,你不应该是可怜.Welfare福利Later this year, we will offer a plan to end welfare as we know it. No one wants to change the welfare systemas much as those who are trapped by the welfare system.今年晚些时候,我们将提供一当我们知道它时,结束接受福利救济的计划.没有人想要几乎等于改变接受福利救济的系统是的那些按照接受福利救济的系统设陷阱捕捉We will offer people on welfare the education,training, child care and health care they need to getback on their feet. Then, after two years, they mustget back to work ? in private business if possible; in public service, if necessary. It's time to end welfareas a way of life.我们建议将靠社会救济居住在教育,训练,孩子照料和保健他们需要痊愈在两年然后之后,如果可能的话,他们必须重新上台用私有生意工作;在如果必然公用事业中.现在是最后成为一生活方式接受福利救济的的时候了.Strengthening Families加强的家庭Our next great goal is to strengthen American families.我们下一个伟大目标是要加强美国家庭.We'll ask fathers and mothers to take moreresponsibility for their children. And we'll crack downon deadbeat parents who won't pay their child support.我们将请求父亲和母亲采取更多对他们的孩子的责任.和我们将镇压将不付他们的孩子支持的筋疲力尽的父母.Crime罪We want to protect our families against violent crime which terrorizes our people and tears apart our communities. We must pass a tough crime bill. We needto put 100,000 more police on the street, provide boot camps for first-time non-violent offenders, and put hardened criminals behind bars. We have a duty to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. If you pass theBrady Bill, I'll sign it.我们想要保护我们恐吓我们人民和责骂我们社区的暴力犯罪家庭免受的伤害.我们必须通过坚硬罪议案.我们需要使更额外的100000警察处于街道,向第一次非暴力的触犯法纪者提供新兵训练营,和把变硬的罪犯关进监牢.我们有一让枪不惹人手罪犯的责任要.如果你和Brady比尔打个照面,我将签署它.Reform改革To make government work for middle-class taxpayers andnot the special interests, we must reform our political system.使政府为中产阶级的纳税人和不特殊利益个人工作,我们必须改革我们政治上制度.I'm asking Congress to enact real campaign finance reform. Let's reduce the power of special interests and increase the participation of the people. We should end the tax deduction for special interest lobbying and use the money to help clean up the political system. And we should quickly enact legislation to force lobbyists to disclose their activities.我请求国会制定真正运动财政改革.让我们减少使人特殊利益个人感兴趣动力和增加人民的参与.我们应该为特殊利益个人游说活动结束课税减免和使用财产帮助打扫政治上系统.和我们应该迅速制定强迫游说团体成员展开他们的活动的立法.But to revolutionize government we have to insure thatit lives within its means. And that starts at the top ? with the White House. In the last few weeks, I have cut the White House staff by twenty-five percent, savingten million dollars. I ordered administrative cuts inthe budgets of agencies and departments, I cut thefederal bureaucracy by 100,000 positions, for combined savings of nine billion dollars. It's time forgovernment to be as frugal as any household in America. That's why I congratulate the Congress for takingsimilar steps to cut its costs today. Together, we can show the American people that we have heard their callfor change.但是使政府发生革命性的变化我们必须给它在它的手段以内居住保险.和那个在顶部以白宫开始.在最近很少一点星期,我通过二十五百分之,储存一千万美元已切断白宫工作人员.我命令行政减少代理机构和部门的预算,我把联合的官僚削减以九十亿美元的合并存款的代价100000阵地.现在是政府是和任何在美洲中家庭一样节省的时候了.那个是为什么我因为采取相似步骤今天降低它的费用向国会表示祝贺.一起,我们能向美国人们展示我们已听他们的召唤改变.But we can go further. Tonight, I call for anacross-the-board freeze in federal government salariesfor one year. Thereafter, federal salaries will rise ata rate lower than the rate of inflation.但是我们能有出息.今晚,在一年中我要求一在联邦政府薪水中普遍冻结.在那以后,联合的薪水将在一与通货膨胀的速度相比低速度方面高涨.We must reinvent government to make it work again.We'll push innovative education reform to improve learning, not just spend more money. We'll use the Superfund to clean up pollution, not just increaselawyers' incomes. We'll use federal banking regulators, not just to protect the security and safety of our financial institutions, but to break the credit crunch. And we'll change the whole focus of our povertyprograms from entitlement to empowerment.我们必须重复发明政府使它再次工作.我们将推行革新的教育改革改进学习,不仅仅花费更多钱.我们将使用Superfund打扫污染,不仅仅增加律师收入.我们将使用联合的银行业务调节器不仅仅保卫我们金融机构的安全和安全但是打破信誉嘎吱作声的咀嚼.和我们将从应得的权利到授权改变我们贫乏程序的整个焦点.Deficit Reduction赤字减少For years, there has been a lot of talk about thedeficit, but very few credible efforts to deal with it. This plan does. Our plan tackles the budget deficit ? seriously and over the long term. We will put in placeone of the biggest deficit reductions and the biggest change of federal priorities in our history at the same time.好几年,已有许多关于赤字的报告但是非常很少一点可信为处理它所作的努力.这计划做.我们计划严肃和在长任期的时间中处理预算赤字.同时我们将加进位置最大赤字我们历史的减少和联合的优先权中最大的改变之一.We are not cutting the deficit because the experts tellus to do so. We are cutting the deficit so that yourfamily can afford a college education for yourchildren. We are cutting the deficit so that yourchildren will someday be able to buy a home of their own. We are cutting the deficit so that your companycan invest in retraining its workers and retooling its factories. We are cutting the deficit so thatgovernment can make the investments that help us become stronger and smarter and safer.因为专家告诉我们做那样,我们是不要切断赤字.我们切断赤字,因此你的家庭能为你的孩子承受一大学教育的支出.我们切断赤字,因此你的孩子将有一天能买一个自己家.我们切断赤字,因此你的公司能把它的工人和用新机械设备装备它的工厂投资到retraining.我们切断赤字,因此政府能作投资,那个帮助人们变得更坚强更和更聪明的更和更安全的.If we do not act now, we will not recognize thiscountry ten years from now. Ten years from now, thedeficit will have grown to 635 billion dollars a year;the national debt will be almost 80 percent of ourgross domestic product. Paying the interest on thatdebt will be the costliest government program of all,and we will continue to be the world's largest debtor, depending on foreign funds for a large part of ournation's investments.如果现在,我们不行动,从现在十年我们将不承认这国家.从现在十年,一年赤字将向6350亿美元已发展;国债将是我们国内生产总值的百分之几乎80.付对那债务的兴趣将是所有的最代价大政府程序,和我们将继续是世界的最大债务人取决于外国一大部分我们国家的投资的基金.Budget预算Our budget will, by 1997, cut 140 billion dollars fromthe deficit ? one of the greatest real spending cuts byan American president. We are making more than 150 difficult, painful reductions which will cut federal spending by 246 billion dollars. We are eliminating programs that are no longer needed, such as nuclearpower research and development. We are slashingsubsidies and canceling wasteful projects. Many ofthese programs were justified in their time. But ifwe're going to start new plans, we must eliminate old ones. Government has been good at building programs,now we must show that we can limit them.我们预算意愿从赤字把一千四百亿美元削减1997-一个最伟大真正开。
克林顿就职演讲稿
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克林顿就职演讲稿克林顿就职演讲稿,克林顿是美国的第42任总统,美国总统就任时会召开公众性的演讲,这些演讲文也是英语学习者的材料,以下由管理资料网整理克林顿就任总统的演讲稿中英文克林顿就职演讲稿My feow citizens:我的同胞们:I stand here today humbed by the task before us, gratefu for the trust you have bestowed, mindfu of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as we as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.今天我站在这里,看到眼前面临的重大任务,深感卑微。
我感谢你们对我的信任,也知道先辈们为了这个国家所作的牺牲。
我要感谢布什总统为国家做出的贡献,以及感谢他在两届政府过渡期间给与的慷慨协作。
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidentia oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the sti waters ofpeace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering couds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simpy because of the ski or vision of those in high office, but because We the Peope have remained faithfu to the ideas of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.迄今为止,已经有44个美国总统宣誓就职。
美国总统国情咨文全程讲稿(中英对照)
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美国总统国情咨文全程讲稿(中英对照)State of the Union 总统向国会发表的年度报告,中文大都译为“国情咨文”。
美国政府的施政纲领,主要阐明美国总统每年面临的国内外情况,以及政府将要采取的政策措施。
按照美国惯例,每年年初,现任总统都要在国会做年度报告,阐述政府的施政方针。
2016年1月这场咨文,有一点告别演说的韵味,总结了过去7年多来执政业绩——执政遗产,也谈到了执政感想。
演讲一开始,他说道,选举年已至,但仍打算继续努力取得进展。
通篇内政居多,外交甚少。
例如,教育、医疗、公平教育、带薪休假、孩童免于枪患等重要议题。
以下双语全文Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:议长先生、副总统先生、各位国会议员和美国同胞们:Tonight marks the eighth year I've come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I'm going to try to make it shorter. I know some of you are antsy to get back to Iowa.今晚是我在这里做国情咨文的第八个年头,也是最后一次。
我将尽量简而言之。
我知道你们中有些人急着回爱荷华州(译者注:两党党内预选进行地)。
I also understand that because it's an election season, expectations for what we'll achieve this year are low. Still, Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the constructive approach you and the other leaders took at the end of last year to pass a budget and make tax cuts permanent for working families. So I hope we can work together this year on bipartisan priorities like criminal justice reform, and helping people who are battling prescription drug abuse. We just might surprise the cynics again.我也理解此时正当大选之季,因此公众对我们今年成就的期望并不高。
1993年美国总统克林顿就职演说
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First Inaugural Address of William Jefferson Clinton January 20, 1993比尔克林顿第一次就职演讲星期三,1993年1月20日My fellow citizens:Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.今天,我们庆祝美国复兴的奇迹。
This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the 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 America.这个仪式虽在隆冬举行,然而,我们通过自己的言语和向世界展示的面容、却促使春回大地--回到了世界上这个最古老的民主国家,并带来了重新创造美国的远见和勇气。
When our founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change. 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 it means to be an American. On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of service to America.当我国的缔造者勇敢地向世界宣布美国独立,并向上帝表明自己的目的时,他们知道,美国若要永存,就必须变革。
克林顿告别演说
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克林顿告别演说第一篇:克林顿告别演说克林顿告别演说My fellow citizens, tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the OvalOffice 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 have servedwith me for the last eight years.同胞们,今晚是我最后一次作为你们的总统,在白宫椭圆形办公室向你们做最后一次演讲。
我从心底深处感谢你们给了我两次机会和荣誉,为你们服务,为你们工作,和你们一起为我们的国家进入21世纪做准备。
这里,我要感谢戈尔副总统,我的内阁部长们以及所有伴我度过过去8年的同事们。
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 andsafer, our people more prosperous.You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.现在是一个极具变革的年代,你们为迎接新的挑战已经做好了准备。
美国克林顿总统在北京大学的演讲稿
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美国克林顿总统在北京大学的演讲稿PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you, President Chen, Chairmen Ren, Vice President Chi, Vice Minister Wei. We are delighted to be here today with a very large American delegation, including the First Lady and our daughter, who is a stu dent at Stanford, one of the schools with which Beijing University has a relationship. We have six members of the United States Congress; the Secretary of State; Secretary of Commerce; the Secretary of Agriculture; the Chairman of our Council of Economic Advisors; Senator Sasser, our Ambassador; the National Security Advisor and my Chief of Staff, among others. I say that to illustrate the importance that the United States places on our relationship with China. I would like to begin by congratulating all of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the centennial year of your university. Gongxi, Beida. (Applause.) As I'm sure all of you know, this campus was once home to Yenching University which was founded by American missionaries. Many of its wonderful buildings were designed by an American architect. Thousands of Americans students and professors have come here to study and teach. We feel a special kinship with you. I am, however, grateful that this day is different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years ago. In June of 1919, the first president of Yenching University, John Leighton Stuart, was set to deliver the very first commencement address on these very grounds. At the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students appeared. They were all out leading the May 4th Movement for China's political and cultural renewal. When I read this, I hoped that when I walked into the auditorium today, someone would be sitting here. And I thank you for being here, very much. (Applause.)Over the last 100 years, this university has grown to more than 20,000 students. Your graduates are spread throughout China and around the world. You have built the largest university library in all of Asia. Last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study, including half of your math and science majors. And in this anniversary year, more than a million people in China, Asia, and beyond have logged on to your web site. At the dawn of a new century, this university is leading China into the future.I come here today to talk to you, the next generation of China's leaders, about the critical importance to your future of building a strong partnership between China and the United States.The American people deeply admire China for its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy and the arts, to science and technology. We remember well our strong partnership in World War II. Now we see China at a moment in history when your glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even greater promise of your future.Just three decades ago, China was virtually shut off from the world. Now, China is a member of more than 1,000 international organizations -- enterprises that affect everything from air travel to agricultural development. You have opened your nation to trade and investment on a large scale. T oday, 40,000 young Chinese study in the United States, with hundreds of thousands more learning in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Your social and economic transformation has been even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to a driving, increasingly market-basedand driven economy, generating two decades of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and outside China, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job, attend a better school. As a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from poverty. Per capita income has more than doubled in the last decade. Most Chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years ago. Of course, these changes have also brought disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous strains on your environment. Once every urban Chinese was guaranteed employment in a state enterprise. Now you must compete in a job market. Once a Chinese worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in Beijing. Now the global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of the world. For those who lack the right training and skills and support, this new world can be daunting. In the short-term, good, hardworking people -- some, at least will find themselves unemployed. And, as all of you can see, there have been enormous environmental and economic and health care costs to the development pattern and the energy use pattern of the last 20 years -- from air pollution to deforestation to acid rain and water shortage.In the face of these challenges new systems of training and social security will have to be devised, and new environmental policies and technologies will have to be introduced with the goal of growing your economy while improving the environment. Everything I know about the intelligence, the ingenuity, the enterprise of the Chinese people and everything I have heard these last few days in my discussions with President Jiang, Prime Minister Zhu and others give me confidence that you will succeed. As you build a new China, America wants to build a new relationship with you. We want China to be successful, secure and open, working with us for a more peaceful and prosperous world. I know there are those in China and the United States who question whether closer relations between our countries is a good thing. But everything all of us know about the way the world is changing and the challenges your generation will face tell us that our two nations will be far better off working together than apart. The late Deng Xiaoping counseled us to seek truth from facts. At the dawn of the new century, the facts are clear. The distance between our two nations, indeed, between any nations, is shrinking. Where once an American clipper ship took months to cross from China to the United States. Today, technology has made us all virtual neighbors. From laptops to lasers, from microchips to megabytes, an information revolution is lighting the landscape of human knowledge, bringing us all closer together. Ideas, information, and money cross the planet at the stroke of a computer key, bringing with them extraordinary opportunities to create wealth, to prevent and conquer disease, to foster greater understanding among peoples of different histories and different cultures. But we also know that this greater openness and faster change mean that problems which start beyond one nations borders can quickly move inside them -- the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the threats of organized crime and drug trafficking, of environmental degradation, and severe economic dislocation. No nation can isolate itself from these problems, and no nation can solve them alone. We, especially the younger generations of China and the United States, must make common cause of our common challenges, so that we can, together, shape a new century of brilliant possibilities. In the 21st century -- your century -- China and the United States will face the challenge ofsecurity in Asia. On the Korean Peninsula, where once we were adversaries, today we are working together for a permanent peace and a future freer of nuclear weapons.On the Indian subcontinent, just as most of the rest of the world is moving away from nuclear danger, India and Pakistan risk sparking a new arms race. We are now pursuing a common strategy to move India and Pakistan away from further testing and toward a dialogue to resolve their differences. In the 21st century, your generation must face the challenge of stopping the spread of deadlier nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. In the wrong hands or the wrong places, these weapons can threaten the peace of nations large and small. Increasingly, China and the United States agree on the importance of stopping proliferation. That is why we are beginning to act in concert to control the worlds most dangerous weapons. In the 21st century, your generation will have to reverse the international tide of crime and drugs. Around the world, organized crime robs people of billions of dollars every year and undermines trust in government. America knows all about the devastation and despair that drugs can bring to schools and neighborhoods. With borders on more than a dozen countries, China has become a crossroad for smugglers of all kinds. Last year, President Jiang and I asked senior Chinese and American law enforcement officials to step up our cooperation against these predators, to stop money from being laundered, to stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, to stop currencies from being undermined by counterfeiting. Just this month, our drug enforcement agency opened an office in Beijing, and soon Chinese counternarcotics experts will be working out of Washington. In the 21st century, your generation must make it your mission to ensure that today's progress does not come at tomorrow's expense. China's remarkable growth in the last two decades has come with a toxic cost, pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you breathe -- the cost is not only environmental, it is also serious in terms of the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic growth. Environmental problems are also increasingly global as well as national. For example, in the near future, if present energy use patterns persist, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the gases which are the principal cause of global warming. If the nations of the world do not reduce the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we live and the way we work, which could literally bury some island nations under mountains of water and undermine the economic and social fabric of nations.We must work together. We Americans know from our own experience that it is possible to grow an economy while improving the environment. We must do that together for ourselves and for the world. Building on the work that our Vice President, Al Gore, has done previously with the Chinese government, President Jiang and I are working together on ways to bring American clean energy technology to help improve air quality and grow the Chinese economy at the same time. But I will say this again -- this is not on my remarks -- your generation must do more about this. This is a huge challenge for you, for the American people and for the future of the world. And it must be addressed at the university level, because political leaders will never be willing to adopt environmental measures if they believe it will lead to large-scale unemployment or more poverty. The evidence is clear that does not have to happen. Y ou will actually have more rapideconomic growth and better paying jobs, leading to higher levels of education and technology if we do this in the proper way. But you and the university, communities in China, the United States and throughout the world will have to lead the way. (Applause.) In the 21st century your generation must also lead the challenge of an international financial system that has no respect for national borders. When stock markets fall in Hong Kong or Jakarta, the effects are no longer local; they are global. The vibrant growth of your own economy is tied closely, therefore, to the restoration of stability and growth in the Asia Pacific region. China has steadfastly shouldered its responsibilities to the region and the world in this latest financial crisis -- helping to prevent another cycle of dangerous devaluations. We must continue to work together to counter this threat to the global financial system and to the growth and prosperity which should be embracing all of this region. In the 21st century, your generation will have a remarkable opportunity to bring together the talents of our scientists, doctors, engineers into a shared quest for progress. Already the breakthroughs we have achieved in our areas of joint cooperation -- in challenges from dealing with spina bifida to dealing with extreme weather conditions and earthquakes -- have proved what we can do together to change the lives of millions of people in China and the United States and around the world. Expanding our cooperat ion in science and technology can be one of our greatest gifts to the future.In each of these vital areas that I have mentioned, we can clearly accomplish so much more by walking together rather than standing apart. That is why we should work to see that the productive relationship we now enjoy blossoms into a fuller partnership in the new century. If that is to happen, it is very important that we understand each other better, that we understand both our common interest and our shared aspirations and our honest differences. I believe the kind of open, direct exchange that President Jiang and I had on Saturday at our press conference -- which I know many of you watched on television -- can both clarify and narrow our differences, and, more important, by allowing people to understand and debate and discuss these things can give a greater sense of confidence to our people that we can make a better future. From the windows of the White House, where I live in Washington, D.C., the monument to our first President, George Washington, dominates the skyline. It is a very tall obelisk. But very near this large monument there is a small stone which contains these words: The United States neither established titles of nobility and royalty, nor created a hereditary system. State affairs are put to the vote of public opinion. This created a new political situation, unprecedented from ancient times to the present. How wonderful it is. Those words were not written by an American. They were written by Xu Jiyu, governor of Fujian Province, inscribed as a gift from the government of China to our nation in 1853. I am very grateful for that gift from China. It goes to the heart of who we are as a people -- the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the freedom to debate, to dissent, to associate, to worship without interference from the state. These are the ideals that were at the core of our founding over 220 years ago. These are the ideas that led us across our continent and onto the world stage. These are the ideals that Americans cherish today. As I said in my press conference with President Jiang, we have an ongoing quest ourselves to live up to those ideals. The people who framed our Constitution understood that we would never achieve perfection. They said that the mission of America would always be "to form a more perfect union" -- inother words, that we would never be perfect, but we had to keep trying to do better. The darkest moments in our history have come when we abandoned the effort to do better, when we denied freedom to our people because of their race or their religion, because there were new immigrants or because they held unpopular opinions. The best moments in our history have come when we protected the freedom of people who held unpopular opinion, or extended rights enjoyed by the many to the few who had previously been denied them, making, therefore, the promises of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution more than faded words on old parchment. Today we do not seek to impose our vision on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universal -- not American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights -- the right to be treated with dignity; the right to express one's opinions, to choose one's own leaders, to associate freely with others, and to worship, or not, freely, however one chooses. In the last letter of his life, the author of our Declaration of Independen ce and our third President, Thomas Jefferson, said then that "all eyes are opening to the rights of man." I believe that in this time, at long last, 172 years after Jefferson wrote those words, all eyes are opening to the rights of men and women everywhere. Over the past two decades, a rising tide of freedom has lifted the lives of millions around the world, sweeping away failed dictatorial systems in the Former Soviet Union, throughout Central Europe; ending a vicious cycle of military coups and civil wars in Latin America; giving more people in Africa the chance to make the most of their hard-won independence. And from the Philippines to South Korea, from Thailand to Mongolia, freedom has reached Asia's shores, powering a surge of growth and productivity. Economic security also can be an essential element of freedom. It is recognized in the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. In China, you have made extraordinary strides in nurturing that liberty, and spreading freedom from want, to be a source of strength to your people. Incomes are up, poverty is down; people do have more choices of jobs, and the ability to travel -- the ability to make a better life. But true freedom includes more than economic freedom. In America, we believe it is a concept which is indivisible. Over the past four days, I have seen freedom in many manifestations in China. I have seen the fresh shoots of democracy growing in the villages of your heartland. I have visited a village that chose its own leaders in free elections. I have also seen the cell phones, the video players, the fax machines carrying ideas, information and images from all over the world. I've heard people speak their minds and I have joined people in prayer in the faith of my own choosing. In all these ways I felt a steady breeze of freedom. The question is, where do we go from here? How do we work together to be on the right side of history together? More than 50 years ago, Hu Shi, one of your great political thinkers and a teacher at this university, said these words: "Now some people say to me you must sacrifice your individual freedom so that the nation may be free. But I reply, the struggle for individual freedom is the struggle for the nation's freedom. The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character." We Americans believe Hu Shi was right. We believe and our experience demonstrates that freedom strengthens stability and helps nations to change. One of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, once said, "Our critics are our friends, for they show us our faults." Now, if that is true, there are many days in the UnitedStates when the President has more friends than anyone else in America. (Laughter.) But it is so. In the world we live in, this global information age, constant improvement and change is necessary to economic opportunity and to national strength. Therefore, the freest possible flow of information, ideas, and opinions, and a greater respect for divergent political and religious convictions will actually breed strength and stability going forward. It is, therefore, profoundly in your interest, and the world's, that young Chinese minds be free to reach the fullness of their potential. That is the message of our time and the mandate of the new century and the new millennium. I hope China will more fully embrace this mandate. For all the grandeur of your history, I believe your greatest days are still ahead. Against great odds in the 20th century China has not only survived, it is moving forward dramatically. Other ancient cultures failed because they failed to change. China has constantly proven the capacity to change and grow. Now, you must re-imagine China again for a new century, and your generation must be at the heart of China's regeneration.The new century is upon us. All our sights are turned toward the future. Now your country has known more millennia than the United States has known centuries. Today, however, China is as young as any nation on Earth. This new century can be the dawn of a new China, proud of your ancient greatness, proud of what you are doing, prouder still of the tomorrows to come. It can be a time when the world again looks to China for the vigor of its culture, the freshness of its thinking, the elevation of human dignity that is apparent in its works. It can be a time when the oldest of nations helps to make a new world.The United States wants to work with you to make that time a reality.Thank you very much. (Applause.)美国总统克林顿在北京大学演讲全文克林顿总统:谢谢。
克林顿1993年就职演讲+(中英文)
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January 20, 1993, Inaugural Address of William J. Clinton克林顿1993年就职演讲(中英文)My fellow citizens :(同胞们)Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.今天,我们庆祝振兴美国这件令人感到异常惊奇的事。
This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the 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 America.尽管这个仪式在隆冬举行,但是,我们所说的话,我们向全世界所显示的面貌,将促使春天的早日来临。
春天重新降临到这个世界上最古老的民主国家,它给我们带来了重新塑造美国的构想和勇气。
When our founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change. 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 it means to be an American.当我们的缔造者们大胆地向全世界宣布美国的独立,向上帝宣布我们的目的时,他们知道,美国要长久地存在下去,就必须改革。
希拉里克林顿在2010中美战略与经济对话开幕式上讲话(中英文对照)
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希拉里克林顿在2010中美战略与经济对话开幕式上讲话(中英文对照)2010年5月24日,第二轮中美战略与经济对话在北京开幕,美国总统奥巴马的特别代表、国务卿希拉里克林顿出席开幕式并讲话。
以下是希拉里讲话全文的中英文对照。
SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning. I want to thank State Councilor Dai and Vice-Premier Wang for their very warm hospitality. It is a pleasure for our entire delegation to be here in Beijing. And it is an honor to join my colleague, Secretary Geithner, and the many officials from across our government in representing the United States at this second round of the strategic and economic dialogue.国务卿克林顿:早上好。
感谢国务委员戴秉国和副总理王岐山非常热情的接待。
我国代表团的全体成员十分高兴来到北京。
我与我的同事盖特纳部长及我国政府各部门的众多官员一起代表美国出席第二轮美中战略与经济对话,为此感到十分荣幸。
I first visited China in 1995, and I have been privileged to return since then. Every trip to China offers fresh insights and images of the dynamism of this country and its people, the pace of change, and the possibilities for the future. Back in 1995, trade between our two nations was measured in the tens of billions of dollars. Today it is counted in the hundreds ofbillions. Few people back then had cell phones, and almost no one had access to the Internet. Today China has the world's largest mobile phone network, and more Internet users than any other country on earth.我于1995年初次访问中国,此后又很荣幸地多次前来访问。
克林顿国情咨文全文
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克林顿国情咨文全文今天我站在这里宣布美国经历了和平时期经济增长的最长一段时间,创造了一千八百万个新的就业机会,工资与通胀相比增长了两倍,接受社会福利的人数降到30年来的最低,失业率也是自1957年以来最低的。
政府预算达到了30年来的首次平衡,从1992年的2900亿美元赤字达到了去年700亿美元的盈余,现在我们正在走上一条今后25年预算盈余的道路。
感谢你们诸位,我们国家的暴力犯罪率也达到近25年来的最低。
美国是一股世界强大的和平力量,从北爱尔兰到波黑到中东。
感谢副总统戈尔的领导,我们进入了信息时代。
美国政府又一次成为倡导公民权益的工具,一个21世纪的政府为21世纪的人民服务。
我站在你们面前宣布,我们国家的团结空前强大。
美国正在努力工作以证明我们的前途无可限量。
随着我们国家的经济增长、我们的预算盈余、我们的信心在增长,现在是我们这一代美国人来担负历史赋予我们的21世纪的责任。
随着我们婴儿潮出生的美国人已经步入老龄,我们要保持21世纪的社会保险。
在本世纪初,作为一个老人意味着贫穷。
当罗斯福总统最初创立社会保险时,数万名老人对此表示感谢。
到了今天如果政府不能提供社会保险,我们近一半的老人也将陷入贫困,幸好美国现在的社会保险非常有力,但到了2013年,国家的税收将不够负担老人社会保险的每月开支,到2032年,社会保险基金也将用尽,社会保险将不足以向美国老人提供应有的医疗和福利。
保持有力社会保险的最好途径就是不要对保险进行大幅度的削减,不要增加税收,不要把社会保险基金用尽,我建议我们做出一个历史性的决定,把政府预算的节余投入到国家社会保险之中。
具体而言,我建议把60%的政府预算盈余在今后15年内投资到社会保险当中,把剩下的一小部分投入到私营领域,获得较高的收益,以保持社会保险在今后55年的健康发展。
但我们必须具有较高的目标,要保持今后75年的社会保险机制的健康,我们要致力解决高龄妇女的贫穷问题,因为她们的贫穷机率要比其他老人高一倍。
2009年美国国务卿克林顿在美国和平研究所的讲话(中英对照)
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2009年美国国务卿克林顿在美国和平研究所的讲话2009年10月21日,美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿在美国和平研究所发表讲话,阐述美国的核裁军方针,呼吁有核国家与无核国家共同应对核威胁,同时为和平利用核能提供便利。
以下是讲话全文。
Remarks at the United States Institute of PeaceSecretary of State Hillary Rodham ClintonOctober 21, 2009, Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.重振不扩散体制:美国主导的外交行动美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿在美国和平研究所的讲话华盛顿哥伦比亚特区五月花万丽酒店2009年10月21日Good morning. Thank you. Thank you very much.上午好。
谢谢你们。
非常感谢你们。
It’s a great h onor to be introduced by Ambassador Moose. George and I have had the privilege of working together in the past, and I look forward to his good advice and counsel as we move forward on many of these important matters. I want to thank Ambassador Solomon. Dick has done an extraordinary job, as you all know, both in his prior incarnation with the State Department and now, of course, with the United States Institute of Peace. And Tara, thank you for your leadership and your commitment to these issues.由穆斯(Moose)大使将我介绍给大家,令我深感荣幸。
克林顿总统1999年联邦国情咨文演说
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】克林顿总统1999年联邦国情咨文演说名人演讲稿Mr.Speaker,Mr.VicePresident,membersofCongress,honoredguests,myfell owAmericans.TonightIhavethehonorofreportingtoyouontheStateoftheUn ion. LetmebeginbysalutingthenewspeakeroftheHouseandthankinghimespecia llytonightforextendinganinvitationtotwoguestssittinginthegallerywithMrs .[J.Dennis]Hastert.LynGibsonandWeiLingChestnutarethewidowsofthetwo braveCapitolHillpoliceofficerswhogavetheirlivestodefendfreedom''''shous e.Mr.Speaker,atyourswearinginyouaskedusalltoworktogetherinaspiritofcivil ityandbipartisanship.Mr.Speaker,let''''sdoexactlythat.Tonight,IstandbeforeyoutoreportthatAmericahascreatedthelongestpeace timeeconomicexpansioninourhistory.Withnearly18millionnewjobs,wages risingatmorethantwicetherateofinflation,thehighesthomeownershipinhis tory,thesmallestwelfarerolesin30years,andthelowestpeacetimeunemploy mentsince1957.Forthefirsttimeinthreedecades,thebudgetisbalanced.Fromadeficitof$290 billionin1992,wehadasurplusof$70billionlastyear.Andnow,weareoncours eforbudgetsurplusesforthenext25years.【本文为word版,下载后可修改、打印,如对您有所帮助,请购买,谢谢。
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克林顿国情咨文全文今天我站在这里宣布美国经历了和平时期经济增长的最长一段时间,创造了一千八百万个新的就业机会,工资与通胀相比增长了两倍,接受社会福利的人数降到30年来的最低,失业率也是自1957年以来最低的。
政府预算达到了30年来的首次平衡,从1992年的2900亿美元赤字达到了去年700亿美元的盈余,现在我们正在走上一条今后25年预算盈余的道路。
感谢你们诸位,我们国家的暴力犯罪率也达到近25年来的最低。
美国是一股世界强大的和平力量,从北爱尔兰到波黑到中东。
感谢副总统戈尔的领导,我们进入了信息时代。
美国政府又一次成为倡导公民权益的工具,一个21世纪的政府为21世纪的人民服务。
我站在你们面前宣布,我们国家的团结空前强大。
美国正在努力工作以证明我们的前途无可限量。
随着我们国家的经济增长、我们的预算盈余、我们的信心在增长,现在是我们这一代美国人来担负历史赋予我们的21世纪的责任。
随着我们婴儿潮出生的美国人已经步入老龄,我们要保持21世纪的社会保险。
在本世纪初,作为一个老人意味着贫穷。
当罗斯福总统最初创立社会保险时,数万名老人对此表示感谢。
到了今天如果政府不能提供社会保险,我们近一半的老人也将陷入贫困,幸好美国现在的社会保险非常有力,但到了2013年,国家的税收将不够负担老人社会保险的每月开支,到2032年,社会保险基金也将用尽,社会保险将不足以向美国老人提供应有的医疗和福利。
保持有力社会保险的最好途径就是不要对保险进行大幅度的削减,不要增加税收,不要把社会保险基金用尽,我建议我们做出一个历史性的决定,把政府预算的节余投入到国家社会保险之中。
具体而言,我建议把60%的政府预算盈余在今后15年内投资到社会保险当中,把剩下的一小部分投入到私营领域,获得较高的收益,以保持社会保险在今后55年的健康发展。
但我们必须具有较高的目标,要保持今后75年的社会保险机制的健康,我们要致力解决高龄妇女的贫穷问题,因为她们的贫穷机率要比其他老人高一倍。
现在这一变革将是一个艰难的选择,必须依靠政府预算的节余,而且要得到两党的同意,但这一变革的决定要在今年做出。
所以我向议会和党派发出倡议----我们联合起来挽救美国的社会保险。
对于政府预算的盈余我们不会乱花一分钱,直到社会保险的问题得到妥善解决。
当社会保险问题解决以后,我们将改善国家的医疗保健,现在我们已将这项基金延长了十年,还要将此继续延长十年,今天我建议将预算节余的六分之一用于今后15年的医疗保健,一直到2020年。
现在,我可以说些六年前不能说的话了。
今年,将有500万人受益于税收削减和教学贷款、奖学金的增加。
受高等教育的大门终于向全体美国人敞开了。
中央支持各州提高公立学校的教学水平,基于自愿原则的全国考试进一步完善,以适应学生们的进步。
为了把每个教室和图书馆与国际互联网相连,拨发了10亿多美元的折扣优惠,取得明显成效。
去年秋天,诸位议员同意我们的提议,着手增加10万名教师,为低年级学生采取小班教学提供了条件。
请你们再接再厉,完成这一义举。
孩子们确实在进步,各年级学生的数学考试成绩都有所提高。
但问题依然存在:与各国同年级学生的水平相比,我们的四年级学生出类拔萃;初二的学生大体上与人家不相上下;而高三学生差得无以复加。
联邦政府每年向公立学校投入150亿美元,对于行之有效的作法,将加以鼓励,不好的作法,将不再拨给资金支持。
今年,我要向国会提交一个方案,要求各州和各教学区负责提高学生水平,表现好的会得到奖励。
我倡导的这种负责制,要求接受联邦拨款的每个教学区采取以下五个步骤:第一,所有学校必须停止社会办学活动。
谁通不过高中毕业考试,就不许拿文凭。
第二,降低考卷难度,但不能让学生蒙混过关,否则是害了他们。
假如应当改进的是教育体制,那么学生是无辜的。
为了赶上课程,一百万孩子在暑期补习班和课后辅导班里埋头苦读。
我的平衡预算计划将大幅度削减对补课活动的资金支持,以减轻学生负担。
第三,各教学区所辖水平最差的学校,应限期改进,否则关闭之。
为此,中央会拨款2亿美元支持。
我们绝大多数教师的工作还是不错的,但仍有很多学校的老师资质太差,在自已教授的学科上,没拿到本科甚至大专文凭。
既然本人还是二把刀,怎么能指望他们带出高才生来?各教学区必须提高授课人员素质。
在老少边穷地区从事基层教育工作的年轻教师,担负着艰巨任务,我建议把用于这些青年进修的师范奖学金提高六倍。
从而使美国各个角落的教学均达到高水平。
第四,我们必须提供更多的信息,提供更多的选择,增大父母的权力。
每个校区都应分发校卡,而且父母应在选择他们的公立学校方面给予更多的选择。
第五,为了确保教室是一个真正学习的地方,对老师们多年来一直要求我们做的问题作出反应,我们应该说所有的州和校区都必须采取和实施敏感纪律政策。
现在,让我们为我们的孩子做更多的事吧。
今天,我们太多的学校太旧了,差点要倒塌了,或者学校的学生太多。
去年秋天,国会错过了改变这一状况的机会。
今年,我们的学校有5300万名学生,国会不会再次错过这一机会。
我要求你们帮助我们的社区建设或使5000所学校现代化。
如果我们做好了这些事情,结束了社会混乱,拆除了行将倒塌的学校,建选好现代化的学校,支持合格教师,促进改革、竞争和纪律,那么我们将走向履行我们这一代人创建21世纪学校的历史责任。
现在,我们也不得不做出更多,支持那些成天在家和工作岗位上劳累的父母们。
而其中最为基本的是收入问题。
那么,让我们在今后两年里把每小时的最低工资提高1美元,让我们加强对同工同酬法律的实施,确保男女同工同酬。
大家知道,这是一个鼓励人心的消息。
在这方面,出现了更多的平衡。
我愿意看到这一现象。
让我们伸出手来。
真是好极了。
工作父母也需要高质量的儿童保护。
因此,今年,我要求国会支持我们给予工作家庭以课税扣除和补贴、提供了的安全与质量、扩大了的放学后项目计划,而且我们的计划也包括给予家中父母以新的课税扣除。
他们也需要支持。
父母永远不应在他们的孩子与工作间作出选择而担心。
现在,我所签署的第一个家庭与医疗许可法帮助了数百万的美国人照顾他们的新生婴儿或患病的亲属而不至于冒失去工作的危险。
我认为现在是给小型公司工作的另外1000万名美国人扩大家庭许可的时候了,而事实证明这给公司老板带来的负担并不大。
我希望你们支持它。
最后,在工作问题上,父母们从来就不应在工作中遇到歧视。
因此,我要求国会禁止公司以有孩子简单地拒绝雇佣或提升他们的雇员。
那是不正确的。
美国的家庭应获得世界上最好的医疗保健。
这里,感谢两党对联邦医疗研究的支持。
现在,我们正进行新的医疗研究,以防止或推迟患上从帕金森到阿尔茨海默、关节炎、癌症的疾病。
不过,随着我们医疗科学的发展,我们不能让我们的医疗体制落伍。
总的来讲,现行的医疗保健改变了美国的药物,降低了费用,但却遇到了质量上的威胁。
我认为,我们应该对每个美国人说,“你们应该有权知道你们所有的医疗选择--不仅仅是最便宜的。
如果你需要一个专家,你就有权找一个专家。
如果出了意外,你有权就近接受紧急治疗。
这就是我们应该说的事情。
我想我应该说,在治疗期间,不管是怀孕还是接受化疗,或者其他什么,你对医生有随叫随到的权利。
我认为应该是这样的。
现在我已经命令将这些权利扩展到8500万享受医疗、医护以及其他联邦保健计划的美国人身上。
但只有国会有权为所有美国人通过一项病人权力法案。
去年,国会就错过了一个机会,现在我们不能再错过这样的机会。
为了我们的家庭,我请求大家超越党派界线,共同通过一项有力可行的病人权利法案。
随着病历储存的日益电子化,对隐私权的威胁也日益增加。
因为去年八月国会已经授权我采取有关措施,我完全可以对美国人民说,我们将保护病历的隐私权,而且我们今年就着手这么做。
两年前,国会已经将保健计划推广到五百万美国儿童。
现在,我们还可以更进一步。
我们应当便于小企业提供医疗保险。
我们应该让那些年龄在55岁和65岁之间失去医疗保险的人有机会付钱接受医疗护理。
我们继续推行计划生育政策。
不应该让人们在保健和工作之间做出选择。
因此,今晚我特别请求大家联手通过一项超党派的立法--这项法案由参议员肯尼迪、杰弗兹、罗斯和莫尼汉提出--它可以让残疾人在工作时也保证有医疗保险。
我们需要我们的公立医院、社区和大学医疗中心为上百万没有任何保险的工人家庭提供基本、可负担的治疗。
他们今天已做了很多,但还可以做得更多。
我的平衡预算为这个目标投入了很大的一笔资金。
我希望你们会考虑到他们,并支持这一规定。
对我来说,我们必须加快治疗和防止精神疾病的努力。
任何美国人从来都不应害怕--从来--提到这种疾病。
今年,我们将主持一个关于精神健康的白宫会议。
蒂帕-戈尔以她的敏感、献身和热情为这一努力起到了带头作用。
我感谢她所做的一切。
谢谢。
谢谢。
正如大家所知,我们的儿童成了媒体大肆宣传的对象,引诱他们吸烟。
现在,我请求国会抵制这种宣传,重申联邦调查局保护儿童使之免于烟草毒害的权力,并在保护烟草种植农民的利益中使烟草公司负起责任来。
吸烟已经在医疗保健和其它项目上吞噬了纳税人上亿美元的资金。
大家知道,各州在此一点上的立场是正确的,纳税人不应该为治疗肺癌,肺气肿以及其它吸烟引起的疾病付款,这应该由烟草公司偿付。
因此,今晚我宣布,司法部正在准备一个诉讼计划,把烟草公司拉上法庭----带着我们收回的资金,用于加强医疗保健事业。
现在,如果我们在以下领域采取行动----最低工资,家庭休假,保育事业,医疗保健以及儿童安全----我们将开始实现我们这一代的在21世纪的巩固家庭的历史责任。
今天,美国拥有历史上最具活力,最有竞争力,最能创造工作的经济。
但是,我们可以做得更好----我们可以建设一个能够覆盖每一个美国人的21世纪经济。
当前的收入差距主要是一个技能差距的问题。
去年,国会通过立法,使工人能够得一种技能,能够选择他们所需要的培训。
在这里我向你们大家鼓掌祝贺,你们是其中的一部分。
今年,我建议在新的体制下采取一个五年承诺,以便于我们在今后五年里能够为所有失业的美国人提供培训机会,扩充快速反应组,在企业关闭时为受到严重影响的城镇提供帮助。
我希望他们支持这个计划。
此外,我还请求你们支持大幅增加联邦政府用于成人教育的预算,以发动一个全国性的运动,以帮助上百万的受教育程度不到五年级的劳动人民。
我们需要这样做。
这里有些好消息:在过去六年里,我们已经削减了将近一半的福利支出。
(鼓掌)两年前,在这个讲台上,我请五家公司率先在全国提供福利雇用职员。
到今晚,我们的以工作为福利组织已经包括有一万家公司,雇用了上百万人。
我们的已经平衡的预算将帮助另外20万人恢复工作的尊严和自豪。
我希望你们支持这个计划。
我们必须进行更多的工作,把私人企业的星星之火扩大到美国的每个角落----建立一个沟通华尔街到阿巴拉契亚山脉,到密西西比三角洲,到美国土著社会区的桥梁----为社区发展银行,为授权区,为10万多担保人提供更多的支持以提供承受得起的住房。