【正文】 andprogreivism,whichatitsverybestbreaksdownbarriersthatarenolongerneededorshouldneverhavebeenerectedinthefirstplace.Itseemedtomethatin1992weneededtodobothtoprepareAmericaforthe21stcenturytobemorecoervativei。we39。,thanksfortheiiration,andI39。veeverencountered,..Andletmelastlythankthepeoplewhohavecontributedtoandbuiltthislibrary:theSchoolofPublicServiceandthefoundation,mystaff,myformerstaff,theboard,thearchitects,theexhibitdesigners,thelandscapers,thecontractors,the1,500peoplewhoputthisbuildingup,JimPolshekandRichardOlcott。sasenatorandshehasallthepowerinourfamily,butshe39。vesaidalotoftimesImaybetheonlyguythatevergotelectedpresidentbecauseofhispersonalfriends.Ithankmypastor,RexHorne,andalltheotherministersherewhohavetaughtme,prayedwithme,andcoueledmeovertheyears.IthankGodformyfamilyandHillary39。mgladhe39。mprettysureSenatorKerry39。renotreoibleforanyofthemistakesImade.Ican39。thavedonemostofthegoodthingswedidwithout39。,“Thereisnothinginlifesopatheticasaformerpresident.”Well,heturnedouttobewrongbecauseofhisownservice,andPresidentCarterhasprovedthatnothingcouldbefurtherfromthetruth.(Alause)39。,afterall,youjustdelayedyourownlibraryopeningbyfouryears.(Laughter.)Icongratulateyouonyourelection,andIwishyouGodeed,eeciallyinanewandmorehopefultimeforpeaceintheMiddleEast.,andIcalledafriendofmineandIsaid:“MyGod,.”Hehasbeenverykindandgeneroustomyfamily,andIthankhimforthat.Todaywe39。sahugegroupfromCongre,andthepresidentsentfourplanesdownandIthankhimforthat。reallinponchos(cheers)buttheretheyare。tplainaboutthisbecausethegroundprobablyneedsitandsomebodyisbenefitingfromit.,membersoftheEisenhower,Nixon,Johon,KeedyandCarterfamilietothevastnumberofmembersofCongreandformermembersofCongrehereIdon39。we“re represented up here on this stage: conservatism, which at its very best draws lines that should not be crossed。Ralph Applebaum for the wonderful exhibits。to all the guests from other countries。to the vast number of members of Congress and former members of Congress hereI don“t know where they are because you”re all in ponchos(cheers)but there they are。由于下著大雨，每人都撐著一把傘。按照美國政府的傳統(tǒng)，軍樂團(tuán)奏起《向總統(tǒng)致敬》，克林頓在老布什、小布什和前總統(tǒng)卡特的陪同下走上臺(tái)。杰斐遜s get on with the program and see what we can learn and you very much.第二篇：克林頓在總統(tǒng)圖書館發(fā)表致謝演講克林頓在總統(tǒng)圖書館發(fā)表致謝演講President Clinton“s Remarks at Library Dedication11月18日，美國第12個(gè)總統(tǒng)圖書館——克林頓圖書館正式向公眾開放，克林頓政府要員、前總統(tǒng)老布什和現(xiàn)任總統(tǒng)小布什、演藝明星等人前往捧場(chǎng)，出席總?cè)藬?shù)估計(jì)達(dá)到了3萬人。94 also proposed for three years running a twentyfive percent tax credit for the production and purchase of clean energy technology and energy conservation I used to joke to Newt Gingrich that I considered it to be one of the single achievements of my second term in office that I finally found a tax cut the Republicans would it created a new energy Senator Lieberman will be appearing on this panel, he and Senator McCain chair a bipartisan task force looking in to global long ago, Hillary went to northern Norway, inside the Arctic Circle, to the northern most village occupied in the world with a delegation of Republican senators to study the reality of global warming and climate think this is being a bipartisan issue in will say again it is a huge economic opportunity, it is a serious national security issue and if this country hopes to be recognized as a positive force we simply have to do more to address the issue of climate change in a way that promotes not undermines growth of developing countries in the it seems to me that these are the major issues that ought to be thank the panelists。proposed the BTU tax which helped to get my head handed to me by the Congress。helped to draft the Kyoto accord which with all it39。one of the big questions we have is how can we fulfill our responsibilities to create economic in poor countries and not to be protectionist and still generate more highpaying, twentyfirst century personal candidate is in clean energy is in clean energy and energy conservation jobs that we created in my library because we bought the solar panels and because we bought the underground heating and cooling with water through the piping and because of all the conservation technology we adoptedall made in America, are simply a tiny indication of what can be what are the problems? Well, the old energy economy that emits greenhouse gases and relies on imported oil is very well organized, very well financed and very well connected new energy economy is diffuse, entrepreneurial, under financed and by in large woefully under connected the transition energy economy, that is using natural gas as a bridging fuel, is often expensive in production and distribution and the financing must e from someone other than the consumers, particularly where the developing world is the other hand, there is a lot of reason to have NGOs doing wonderful work, as I Gore, who I talked to yesterday, wanted to be here but couldn’t because of scheduling conflict just set up set up a development fund to try to finance projects and prove we can make a profit by building a clean energy ’m convinced the biggest problem is the mind set which still dominates the decisions makers in the public and private the powerful example of British Petroleum, notwithstanding a lot of other examples which all of you know as well as I great French writer Victor Hugo once said there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has energy I think the slogan should be there is nothing more destructive than an idea whose time has e and gone and nobody will face up to interest in this issue began almost thirty years January of 1977, when I was a young attorney general attempting to prove we could conserve our way out of the need to build a very expensive new nuclear power plant to serve three states in the middleSouth ’m happy to say that the utility towards which I tilted, which is was then called Middle South now Energy has proved by its own example that a great deal can be done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an economic that long ago I