【正文】 s most productive economy even as it protects the great natural bounty of our water, air, and majestic in this land of new promise, we will have reformed our politics so that the voice of the people will always speak louder than the din of narrow interests, regaining the participation and deserving the trust of all citizens, let us build that America, a nation ever moving forward towardrealizing the full potential of all its and power, yes, they are important, and we must maintain let us never forget: The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human the end, all the world39。s most prized schools will have the highest standards in the world, igniting the spark ofpossibility in the eyes of every girl and every the doors of higher education will be open to knowledge and power of the Information Age will be within reach not just of the few, but of every classroom, every library, every and children will have time not only to work, but to read and play the plans they make at their kitchen table will be those of a better home, a better job, the certain chance to go to streets will echo again with the laughter of our children, because no one will try to shoot them or sell them drugs who can work, will work, with today39。taking time out of our own lives to serve and every one of us, in our own way, must assume personal responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our neighbors and 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 future, will 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 America39。s indispensable again, our economy 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 ourefforts: 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 ,the American people, we are the 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。built unrivaled centers of learning and opened public schools to all。 【美國總統(tǒng)就職演說系列】克林頓連任作者：news 日期：2010年05月21日(2周前)The Second Inaugural Address by Bill ClintonJanuary 20, 1997My fellow citizens :At this last presidential inauguration of the 20th century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs, a moment that will define our course, and our character, for decades to must keep our old democracy forever by the ancient vision of a promised land, let us set our sights upon a land of new promise of America was born in the 18th century out of the bold conviction that we are all created was extended and preserved in the 19th century, when our nation spread across the continent, saved the union, and abolished the awful scourge of , in turmoil and triumph, that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American what a century it has became the world39?，F(xiàn)在，我們每個人都必須以自己的方式在上帝的幫助下響應這一號召。”From this joyful mountaintop of celebration, we hear a call to service in the have heard the have changed the now, each in our way, and with God39。一種因為這種信念而變得崇高的思想，即相信我們的國家能夠從無數(shù)的分歧中求得最大程度的團結一致。今天，我們不只是在慶祝美國，而且是在重新獻身于美國的思想。要做的事情太多——確實足以使千百萬精神上依然年輕的其他人也投身其中。我請求國會同我合作。現(xiàn)在，我們必須致力于這個時期所賦予我們的任務。你們異口同聲地提高了自己的呼聲。看到這些思想為世界各國所接受，我們感到由衷的高興。今天，在波斯灣，在索馬里，在其他地方，那些為國效力的美國勇士們都證明了我們的決心。我們將同我們的朋友和盟國一道，努力確定改革和發(fā)展方向，以免被改革所吞沒。s collapse has called forth old animosities and new America must continue to lead the world we did so much to ，隨著舊秩序被打破，新的世界更加自由，但又更加不穩(wěn)定。they affect us ，我們必須迎接來自國內(nèi)、國外的種種挑戰(zhàn)。讓我們下定決心，使我們的政府成為一個富蘭克林羅斯福所說的，進行“大膽而持久的實驗”的地方，即是說，成為一個著眼于未來，而不是留戀過去的政府。Americans 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, persistent experimentation,” a government for our tomorrows, not our us give this capital back to the people to whom it 。讓我們大家都擔負起更多的責任，不光是為我們自己和我們的家庭，而且是我們的社會和我們的國家。為了他們，我們滿懷理想。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 。我們不是為了犧牲而犧牲，而是為我們自己的利益而犧牲。我們必須對自己的人民——對他們的工作和對他們的未來——增加投資，同時削減我們的巨額債務。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。同胞們，這是我們的時代，讓我們?nèi)肀?。美國人民從來就是一個不甘寂寞、勇于探索和充滿希望的人民。and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our ，但是，在大多數(shù)人更加拼命地工作而收入?yún)s在減少的時候，在還有人根本找不到工作的時候，在衛(wèi)生保健費用使許多人傾家蕩產(chǎn)、使大大小小的企業(yè)行將倒閉的時候，在恐懼犯罪而使奉公守法的公民喪失自由的時候，在千百萬貧困兒童甚至難以想象我們正召喚他們?nèi)ミ^的那種生活的時候，我們卻還沒有使改革成為我們的朋友。This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to pete and wi