【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ring are the greatest of our lifetimetwo wars a planet in peril the worst financial crisis in a century Even as we stand here tonight we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they39。ll make the mortgage or pay their doctors39。 bills or save enough for their child39。s college education There39。s new energy to harness new jobs to be created new schools to build and threats to meet alliances to repair The road ahead will be long Our climb will be steep We may not get there in one year or even in one term But America I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there I promise you we as a people will get there There will be setbacks and false starts There are many who won39。t agree with every decision or policy I make as president And we know the government can39。t solve every problem But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face I will listen to you especially when we disagree And above all I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it39。s been done in America for 221 yearsblock by block brick by brick calloused hand by calloused hand What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night This victory alone is not the change we seek It is only the chance for us to make that change And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were It can39。t happen without you without a new spirit of service a new spirit of sacrifice So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism of responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything it39。s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers In this country we rise or fall as one nation as one people Let39。s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long Let39。s remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House a party founded on the values of selfreliance and individual liberty and national unity Those are values that we all share And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours we are not enemies but friends Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn I may not have won your vote tonight but I hear your voices I need your help And I will be your president too And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world our stories are singular but our destiny is shared and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand To thoseto those who would tear the world down We will defeat you To those who seek peace and security We support you And to all those who have wondered if America39。s beacon still burns as bright Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation es not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth but from the enduring power of our ideals democracy liberty opportunity and unyielding hope That39。s the true genius of America that America can change Our union can be perfected What we39。ve already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations But one that39。s on my mind tonight39。s about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta She39。s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old She was born just a generation past slavery a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky when someone like her couldn39。t vote for two reasonsbecause she was a woman and because of the color of her skin And tonight I think about all that she39。s seen throughout her century in Americathe heartache and the hope the struggle and the progress the times we were told that we can39。t and the people who pressed on with that American creed Yes we can At a time when women39。s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot Yes we can When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal new jobs a new sense of mon purpose Yes we can When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved Yes we can She was there for the buses in Montgomery the hoses in Birmingham a bridge in Selma and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that We Shall Overe Yes we can A man touched down on the moon a wall came down in Berlin a world was connected by our own science and imagination And this year in this election she touched her finger to a screen and cast her vote because after 106 years in America through the best of times and the darkest of hours she knows how America can change Yes we can America we have e so far We have seen so much But there is so much more to do So tonight let us ask ourselvesif our children should live to see the next century if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper what change will they see What progress will we have made This is our chance to answer that call This is our moment This is our time to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace to reclaim the American dream