【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 trongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among our 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 , the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the and merce are global。investment is mobile。technology is almost magical。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。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 lawabiding 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 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。a new season of American renewal has renew America, we must be must do what no generation has had to do must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, in their future, and at the same time cut our massive we must do so in a world in which we must pete for every will not be easy。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。s eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is the world to e。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。the world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race。they affect us , as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less 39。s collapse has called forth old animosities and new America must continue to lead the world we did so much to America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize the opportunities, of this new with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international munity is defied, we will act。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。s American people have summoned the change we celebrate have raised your voices in an unmistakable have cast your votes in historic you have changed the face of Congress, the presidency and the political process , you, my fellow Americans have forced the , we must do the work the season that work I now turn, with all the authority of my ask the Congress to join with no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service。to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping pany with those in need, reconnecting our torn is so much to be done。enough indeed for millions of others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service, serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth, we need each we must care for one , we do more than celebrate America。we rededicate ourselves to the very idea of idea born in revolution a