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is the strongest on again, we are building stronger families, thriving munities, better educational opportunities, a cleaner that once seemed destined to deepen now bend to our efforts: our streets are safer and record numbers of our fellow citizens have moved from welfare to once again, we have resolved for our time a great debate over the role of we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the American peoplewe are the solution.(Applause.)Our founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our mon challenges and advance our mon dreams in each new times change, so government must need a new government for a new centuryhumble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us, but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves。a government that is smaller, lives within its means, and does more with where it can stand up for our values and interests in the world, and where it can give Americans the power to make a real difference in their everyday lives, government should do more, not preeminent mission of our new government is to give all Americans an opportunitynot a guarantee, but a real opportunityto build better lives.(Applause.)Beyond that, my fellow citizens, the future is up to founders taught us that the preservation of our liberty and our union depends upon responsible we need a new sense of responsibility for a new is work to do, work that government alone cannot do: teaching children to read。hiring people off welfare rolls。ing out from behind locked doors and shuttered windows to help reclaim our streets from drugs and gangs and crime。taking time out of our own lives to serve and every one of us, in our own way, must assume personalresponsibilitynot only for ourselves and our families, but for our neighbors and our nation.(Applause.)Our greatest responsibility is to embrace a new spirit of munity for a new any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as one challenge of our past remains the challenge of our futurewill we be one nation, one people, with one mon destiny, or not? Will we all e together, or e apart?The divide of race has been America s constant each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different.(Applause.)These forces have nearly destro第五篇:克林頓最后的演講Clinton’s Farewell Speech同胞們,今晚是我最后一次作為你們的總統(tǒng),在白宮橢圓形辦公室向你們做最后一次演講。My fellow citizens, tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your ,你們?yōu)橛有碌奶魬?zhàn)已經(jīng)做好了準(zhǔn)備。This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to 是你們讓我們的社會結(jié)構(gòu)更加牢固,我們的家人更加健康安全,我們的人民更加富裕every have made our social fabric stronger, our families healthier and safer, and our people more ,我們已經(jīng)進(jìn)入了全球信息化的時代,這是美國復(fù)興的偉大時代。You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American 。美國的經(jīng)濟(jì)正在突破一個又一個的記錄,向前發(fā)展。我們已創(chuàng)造了2200萬個新的工作崗位,失業(yè)率是30年最低的,老百姓的住房自有率達(dá)到一個空前的高度,我們經(jīng)濟(jì)繁榮的持續(xù)時間是歷史上最長的。Working together, America has done economy is breaking records, with more than 22 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment in 30 years, the highest home ownership ever, the longest expansion in 、我們的社會變得日益強(qiáng)大。3500萬美國人享受聯(lián)邦休假,800萬人重新獲得社會保障,犯罪率是25年來最低的,1000多萬美國人享受更多的入學(xué)貸款,更多人接受大學(xué)教育。我們的學(xué)校也砸改善。辦學(xué)水平提高、責(zé)任感增強(qiáng)和投資加大,使得學(xué)生取得更高的分?jǐn)?shù)和更高的升學(xué)率。Our families and munities are million American have used the families leave million have moved off is at a 25year 10 million American receive more school are betterhigh standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought higher test scores, and higher graduation ,已有300多萬美國兒童享受醫(yī)療保險,700多萬美國人已經(jīng)脫離了貧困線。全國人民的收入大幅度提高。我們的空氣和水資源更加潔凈,食品和飲用水更加安全。我們珍貴的土地資源也得到了近百年來所未有的保護(hù)。More than three million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million American have been lifted out of are rising across the air and water are food and drinking water are more of our precious land has been preserved, in the continental United States, than at any time in 100 ,為地球上每個角落維護(hù)和平,促進(jìn)繁榮。我非常高興能在此時將領(lǐng)導(dǎo)權(quán)交給信任總統(tǒng),強(qiáng)大的美國正面臨未來的挑戰(zhàn)。American has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner of the ’m very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of leadership to a new president, with America in such a strong position to meet the challenges of the future.