【正文】 dent Jiang and I had on Saturday at our press conferencewhich I know many of you watched on televisioncan both clarify and narrow our differences, and, more important, by allowing people to understand and debate and discuss these things can give a greater sense of confidence to our people that we can make a better the windows of the White House, where I live in Washington, ., the monument to our first President, George Washington, dominates the is a very tall very near this large monument there is a small stone which contains these words: The United States neither established titles of nobility and royalty, nor created a hereditary affairs are put to the vote of public created a new political situation, unprecedented from ancient times to the wonderful it words were not written by an were written by Xu Jiyu, governor of Fujian Province, inscribed as a gift from the government of China to our nation in am very grateful for that gift from goes to the heart of who we are as a peoplethe right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the freedom to debate, to dissent, to associate, to worship without interference from the are the ideals that were at the core of our founding over 220 years are the ideas that led us across our continent and onto the world are the ideals that Americans cherish I said in my press conference with President Jiang, we have an ongoing quest ourselves to live up to those people who framed our Constitution understood that we would never achieve said that the mission of America would always be “to form a more perfect union”in other words, that we would never be perfect, but we had to keep trying to do darkest moments in our history have e when we abandoned the effort to do better, when we denied freedom to our people because of their race or their religion, because there were new immigrants or because they held unpopular best moments in our history have e when we protected the freedom of people who held unpopular opinion, or extended rights enjoyed by the many to the few who had previously been denied them, making, therefore, the promises of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution more than faded words on old we do not seek to impose our vision on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universalnot American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rightsthe right to be treated with dignity。s remarkable growth in the last two decades has e with a toxic cost, pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you breathethe cost is not only environmental, it is also serious in terms of the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic problems are also increasingly global as well as example, in the near future, if present energy use patterns persist, China will overtake the United States as the world39。s progress does not e at tomorrow39。s political and cultural I read this, I hoped that when I walked into the auditorium today, someone would be sitting I thank you for being here, very much.(Applause.)Over the last 100 years, this university has grown to more than 20,000 graduates are spread throughout China and around the have built the largest university library in all of year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study, including half of your math and science in this anniversary year, more than a million people in China, Asia, and beyond have logged on to your web the dawn of a new century, this university is leading China into the e here today to talk to you, the next generation of China39。the National Security Advisor and my Chief of Staff, among say that to illustrate the importance that the United States places on our relationship with would like to begin by congratulating all of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the centennial year of your , Beida.(Applause.)As I39。the Chairman of our Council of Economic Advisors。Secretary of Commerce。第一篇：美國克林頓總統(tǒng)在北京大學(xué)的演講稿美國克林頓總統(tǒng)在北京大學(xué)的演講稿PRESIDENT CLINTON:Thank you, President Chen, Chairmen Ren, Vice President Chi, Vice Minister are delighted to be here today with a very large American delegation, including the First Lady and our daughter, who is a student at Stanford, one of the schools with which Beijing University has a have six members of the United States Congress。the Secretary of State。the Secretary of Agriculture。Senator Sasser, our Ambassador。m sure all of you know, this campus was once home to Yenching University which was founded by American of its wonderful buildings were designed by an American of Americans students and professors have e here to study and feel a special kinship with am, however, grateful that this day is different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years June of 1919, the first president of Yenching University, John Leighton Stuart, was set to deliver the very first mencement address on these very the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students were all out leading the May 4th Movement for China39。s leaders, about the critical importance to your future of building a strong partnership between China and the United American people deeply admire China for its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy and the arts, to science and remember well our strong partnership in World War we see China at a moment in history when your glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even greater promise of your three decades ago, China was virtually shut off from the , China is a member of more than 1,000 international organizationsenterprises that affect everything from air travel to agricultural have opened your nation to trade and investment on a large , 40,000 young Chinese study in the United States, with hundreds of thousands more learning in Asia, Africa, E