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ed over Depression, fascism and , 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 in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world39。and ambition for a better life is now earn our livelihood in peaceful petition with people all across the 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 new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to pete and win in when most people are working harder for less。and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our know we have to face hard truths and take strong we have not done , we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our our challenges are fearsome, so are our Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before 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 Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to , my fellow citizens, this is our us embrace democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift。the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our munities and our renew America, we must revitalize our beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and 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 deserve better, and in this city today, there are people who want to do 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 us put aside personal advantage so that we can feel the pain and see the promise of us resolve to make our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called “bold, persistentexperimentation,” a government for our tomorrows, not our us give this capital back to the people to whom it renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well at is no longer division between what is foreign and what is domestic。with peaceful diplomacy when ever possible, with force when brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand are testament to our our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many the world, we see them embraced, and we hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent who are building democracy and cause is America39。we rededicate ourselves to the very idea of idea born in revolution and renewed through two centuries of idea tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, might have been each idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad diversity the deepest measure of idea infused with the conviction that America39。當(dāng)我國(guó)的締造者勇敢地向世界宣布美國(guó)獨(dú)立,并向上帝表明自 己的目的時(shí),他們知道,美國(guó)若要永存,就必須變革。今天,在冷戰(zhàn)陰影下成長(zhǎng)起來(lái)的一代人,在世界上負(fù)起了新的責(zé) 任。當(dāng)喬治?華盛頓第一次宣讀我剛才宜讀的誓言時(shí),人們騎馬把 那個(gè)信息緩慢地傳遍大地,繼而又來(lái)船把。我們?cè)跓o(wú)與倫比的繁榮中長(zhǎng)大,繼承了仍然是世界上最強(qiáng)大的經(jīng)濟(jì)。盡管我們隨著當(dāng)今時(shí)代 的節(jié)拍前進(jìn),但我們的使命永恒不變。s help, we must answer the you, and God bless you 比爾?克林頓 第一次就職演講星期三,1993年1月20日同胞們:今天,我們慶祝美國(guó)復(fù)興的奇跡。to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping pany with those in need, reconnecting our torn is so much to be done。they affect us , as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less 39。it will require it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for our own must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its Founders saw themselves in the light of can do no who has ever watched a child39。when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our enterprises, great and small。investment is mobile。s sake, but change to preserve America39。當(dāng)然,沒(méi)有任何一個(gè)頭銜能讓我比作為一個(gè)美國(guó)公民更為自豪的了。Hillary, Chelsea and I join all Americans in wishing our very best to the next president, George , to his family and his administration in meeting thesechallenges and in leading freedom’s march in this new 、切爾西和我同美國(guó)人民一起,向即將就任的布什總統(tǒng)、他的家人及美國(guó)新政府致以衷心的祝福,希望新政府能夠勇敢面對(duì)挑戰(zhàn),并高扛自由大旗在新世紀(jì)闊步前進(jìn)。隨著我們變得越來(lái)越多樣化,我們必須更加努力地團(tuán)結(jié)在共同價(jià)值觀和共同人性的旗幟下。如果我們想把我們共有的價(jià)值觀賦予這個(gè)世界,我們必須共同承擔(dān)起這個(gè)責(zé)任。This global gap requires more than requires poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson warned of entangling in our times, America cannot and must not disentangle itself from the we want the world to embody our shared values, then we must assume a shared,而是實(shí)際行動(dòng)。全世界人民期望美國(guó)成為和平與繁榮、自由與安全的力量。Second, because the world is more connected every day in every way, America’s security and prosperity require us to continue to lead in the this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom that ever alliances are stronger than all around the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom and global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to workand live and raise their families with ,世界各國(guó)的聯(lián)系日益