【正文】 t, mercial development, powered entirely by clean energy over the next couple of library, which we just dedicated, reduced energy consumption by thirtyfour percent, with three hundred and eight solar panels made in California, with pl astic piping to carry hot and cold water to supplement traditional energy usage made in red state and a blue say that to make the point that this should not be a partisan a country like the United States or Europe, struggling with growth Japan who sustained a decade of no growth until the recent more encouraging signs。s Opening Remarks at Energy ConferenceDecember 6, 2004 New York UniversityThe Third Annual William Presidential Foundation Forum New Thinking on Energy Policy: Meeting the Challenges of Security, Development and Climate Change Thank you, good morning and wele to the third annual Clinton Foundation forum at 39。d like to thank my good friend John Sexton, his wife Lisa and all the people at NYU who have made us feel wele here three years 39。one of the big questions we have is how can we fulfill our responsibilities to create economic in poor countries and not to be protectionist and still generate more highpaying, twentyfirst century personal candidate is in clean energy is in clean energy and energy conservation jobs that we created in my library because we bought the solar panels and because we bought the underground heating and cooling with water through the piping and because of all the conservation technology we adoptedall made in America, are simply a tiny indication of what can be what are the problems? Well, the old energy economy that emits greenhouse gases and relies on imported oil is very well organized, very well financed and very well connected new energy economy is diffuse, entrepreneurial, under financed and by in large woefully under connected the transition energy economy, that is using natural gas as a bridging fuel, is often expensive in production and distribution and the financing must e from someone other than the consumers, particularly where the developing world is the other hand, there is a lot of reason to have NGOs doing wonderful work, as I Gore, who I talked to yesterday, wanted to be here but couldn’t because of scheduling conflict just set up set up a development fund to try to finance projects and prove we can make a profit by building a clean energy ’m convinced the biggest problem is the mind set which still dominates the decisions makers in the public and private the powerful example of British Petroleum, notwithstanding a lot of other examples which all of you know as well as I great French writer Victor Hugo once said there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has energy I think the slogan should be there is nothing more destructive than an idea whose time has e and gone and nobody will face up to interest in this issue began almost thirty years January of 1977, when I was a young attorney general attempting to prove we could conserve our way out of the need to build a very expensive new nuclear power plant to serve three states in the middleSouth ’m happy to say that the utility towards which I tilted, which is was then called Middle South now Energy has proved by its own example that a great deal can be done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an economic that long ago I met one of our participants here, David Freeman, who was then head of the Tennessee valley authority then went to Los Angeles to run the local power at the tender age of somewhere north of seventyfive he decided he would start a new business in clean energy because he39。proposed the BTU tax which helped to get my head handed to me by the Congress。s get on with the program and see what we can learn and you very much.第二篇：克林頓在總統(tǒng)圖書館發(fā)表致謝演講克林頓在總統(tǒng)圖書館發(fā)表致謝演講President Clinton“s Remarks at Library Dedication11月18日，美國(guó)第12個(gè)總統(tǒng)圖書館——克林頓圖書館正式向公眾開放，克林頓政府要員、前總統(tǒng)老布什和現(xiàn)任總統(tǒng)小布什、演藝明星等人前往捧場(chǎng)，出席總?cè)藬?shù)估計(jì)達(dá)到了3萬人。按照美國(guó)政府的傳統(tǒng)，軍樂團(tuán)奏起《向總統(tǒng)致敬》，克林頓在老布什、小布什和前總統(tǒng)卡特的陪同下走上臺(tái)。to the vast number of members of Congress and former members of Congress hereI don“t know where they are because you”re all in ponchos(cheers)but there they are。Ralph Applebaum for the wonderful exhibits。tplainaboutthisbecausethegroundprobablyneedsitandsomebodyisbenefitingfromit.,membersoftheEisenhower,Nixon,Johon,KeedyandCarterfamilietothevastnumberofmembersofCongreandformermembersofCongrehereIdon39。sahugegroupfromCongre,andthepresidentsentfourplanesdownandIthankhimforthat。,“Thereisnothinginlifesopatheticasaformerpresident.”Well,heturnedouttobewrongbecauseofhisownservice,andPresidentCarterhasprovedthatnothingcouldbefurtherfromthetruth.(Alause)39。renotreoibleforanyofthemistakesImade.Ican39。mgladhe39。sasenatorandshehasallthepowerinourfamily,butshe39。,thanksfortheiiration,andI39。andprogreivism,whichatitsverybestbreaksdownbarriersthatarenolongerneededorshouldneverhavebeenerectedinthefirstplace.Itseemedtomethatin1992weneededtodobothtoprepareAmericaforthe21stcenturytobemorecoervativei。we39。veeverencountered,..Andletmelastlythankthepeoplewhohavecontributedtoandbuiltthislibrary:theSchoolofPublicServiceandthefoundation,mystaff,myformerstaff,theboard,thearchitects,theexhibitdesigners,thelandscapers,thecontractors,the1,500peoplewhoputthisbuildingup,JimPolshekandRichardOlcott。vesaidalotoftimesImaybetheonlyguythatevergotelectedpresidentbecauseofhispersonalfriends.Ithankmypastor,RexHorne,andalltheotherministersherewhohavetaughtme,prayedwithme,andcoueledmeovertheyears.IthankGodformyfamilyandHillary39。mprettysureSenatorKerry39。thavedonemostofthegoodthingswedidwithout39。,afterall,youjustdelayedyourownlibraryopeningbyfouryears.(Laughter.)Icongratulateyouonyourelection,andIwishyouGodeed,eeciallyinanewandmorehopefultimeforpeaceintheMiddleEast.,andIcalledafriendofmineandIsaid:“MyGod,.”Hehasbeenverykindandgeneroustomyfamily,andIthankhimforthat.Todaywe39。reallinponchos(cheers)buttheretheyare。we“re represented up here on this stage: conservatism, which at it