【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 d choices and prepare the nation for a new have been lost。jobs shed。businesses health care is too costly。our schools fail too many。and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land—a nagging fear that America’s decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its I say to you that the challenges we face are are serious and they are will not be met easily or in a short span of know this, America—they will be this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and this day, we e to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and wornout dogmas that for far too long have strangled our remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has e to set aside childish time has e to reaffirm our enduring spirit。to choose our better history。to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the Godgiven promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a must be journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for has not been the path for the fainthearted—for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and , it has been the risktakers, the doers, the makers of things—some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West。endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg。Normandy and Khe and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions。greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or is the journey we continue remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on workers are no less productive than when this crisis minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last capacity remains our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions—that time has surely today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking everywhere we look, there is work to be state of our economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act—not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our merce and bind us will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new this we can this we will , there are some who question the scale of our ambitions—who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big memories are they have forgotten what this country has already done。what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to mon purpose, and necessity to What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them—that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works—whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is the answer is yes, we intend to move the answer is no, programs will those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account—to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day—because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control—the nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity。on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart—not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our mon for our mon defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s so to all the other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and we are ready to lead once that earlier generations faced down fascism and munism not just with missiles and tanks, but with the sturdy alliances and enduring understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we , they knew that our power grows through its prudent use。our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and are the keepers of this by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort—even greater cooperation and understanding between will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hardear