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s dream was the American quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live out our true history has been built on such dreams and by our dreams and labors we will redeem the promise of America in the 21st that effort I p。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 growing middle miracles of medicine at last will reach not only those who can claim care now, but the children and hardworking families too long will stand mighty for peace and freedom, and maintain a strong defense against terror and children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological and airports, farms and factories will thrive with trade and innovation and 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。today, it is a monplace encyclopedia for millions of now are decoding the blueprint of human for our most feared illnesses seem close at world is no longer divided into two hostile , now we are building bonds with nations that once were our connections of merce and culture give us a chance to lift the fortunes and spirits of people the world for the very first time in all of history, more people on this planet live under democracy than fellow Americans, as we look back at this remarkable century, we may ask, can we hope not just to follow, but even to surpass the achievements of the 20th century in America and to avoid the awful bloodshed that stained its legacy? To that question, every American here and every American in our land today must answer a resounding “Yes.”This is the heart of our a new vision of government, a new sense of responsibility, a new spirit of munity, we will sustain America39。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。hiring people off welfare rolls。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。invented the puter and the microchip。built unrivaled centers of learning and opened public schools to all。saved the world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war。 【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?!笨肆诸D說:“它們幫助我了解別人——不僅是在中國,而且是在全世界——怎么看待我說的話??肆诸D最后表示,他感覺到,北大學生的問題含有很多批評的成分?!笨墒堑?位學生仍不放松,問克林頓:“如果現在北京大學也有一群學生向你示威抗議,你會有什么感受?”學生顯然在指去年江澤民主席訪美時,在哈佛大學演講時遇到示威的事?!叭藗冇羞x擇的自由,你必須尊重別人的自由,他們有權作出與你不一人的自由,他們有權作出與你不一樣的決定。熱烈的掌聲再一次響起。不過,北大學生對他的挑戰(zhàn)并沒有放緩。“我們仍不完美??肆诸D承認,美國曾長期存在奴隸制度。這是一位女學生?!痹诮舆B遭到三個尖銳問題猛攻之后,克林頓才稍微有機會喘口氣,回答了一個溫和的提問,談他對兩國年輕人的期望?!澳銌栁?,我是不是其實想要圍堵中國?答案是否定的。為了強調美國人民對中國人民有感情,克林頓提到歷史上美國人民經常認為應該與中國人民親近。他問克林頓:你帶著微笑來到中國,說要“交往”,但你的微笑后面是否另有所圖呢?聽眾當場笑了,還報以熱烈掌聲?!笨肆诸D或許以為他說明白了,但是緊接的一個問題卻更使他感到尷尬??肆诸D告訴在座聽眾,他們將會看到兩國在區(qū)域安全問題方面有更多的合作。”他費了一番口舌,解釋美國20年來一直