奥巴马就职演说全文 美国总统, 奥巴马, 教育问题, 美国人, 战争

伊万豆夫

奥巴马就职演说全文 我的国民，我今天站在这里。 面对面前的任务，感到非常谦卑。 因为你们的信任，因为我的前辈做出的贡献。 现在已经有四十四个美国人宣誓就任美国总统。 在繁荣时刻美国人在重复这宣誓的三十五个字。 现在我们在危机时期必须明白这一点，我们于战争中得到削弱。因为有些人太自私，有些人正在失去工作和房子，教育问题。我们每天都在看着危机的发生，有些人在危害我们居住的星球。 无法衡量的是我们国土的担心，我们有这种担心，在这种滑坡时期是不能避免的，但是我们必须面对这些挑战。 今天，我们聚集在这里我们选择期望而不是担心，我们选择团结而不是反对，今天我们要克服抱怨和不切实际的承诺，这些遏制了我们ZZ的发展，我们是一个年轻的国家，我们要醒过来，要凝聚团结，推动进步。我们必须要达到我们的目标，就是每一个人都是平等的，每一个人都有权利去争取他们的幸福。 我们的国家是伟大的，我们明白伟大不是上天给我们的，是我们自己得到的。有一些人是有名的，而有更多的人是无名的，他们付出了艰辛的努力。我们必须要记住他们的努力，他们的努力换来了今天西方的繁荣。还有一些人为了今天的辉煌而牺牲。比如诺曼底，无数个这样的例子，只有他们的牺牲才换来了今天的繁荣。我们仍然是世界上最好的国家，最强大的国家，我们的实力依然没有改变。但是我们正在面对时代给予我们的挑战。 我环视周围，我们现在必须面临更大的问题，我们要建立更强大的国家，桥梁，道路，电网，我们要推动教育，医疗，科技的发展。我们要利用清洁能源，我们要培养新的大学教师，来推动这一切的发展。现在有一些人在质疑我们，质疑我们的计划，他们认为我们不可能达到这些目标，没有长远的计划，但是他们遗忘了，我们已经得到的成就。我们不是说ZF是要大还是要小，是应该要发挥作用。是否给大家幸福，能给大家工作。ZF的存亡应该由人民说了算。因为只有这样我们才能回复人民和ZF之间宝贵的信任。现在我们已经不用再质疑市场的能力，但是市场已经失控，我们的国家只支持富人是行不通的。我们的能力必须得到支持，这关系到每一个人的能力，我们必须要关注到我们共同的财富和共同的理念。 我们的理想和现实之中有这样的误解，他们认为我们在浪费几代人的努力，我们在冒险，但是我要告诉他们，我们不会浪费这样的机会，我要告诉你们，美国是每一个人争取MZ和自由的国度，我们愿意再一次争取当全世界的领袖。 我们早期的人，面临法西斯，共产ZY的时候，更多的时候是用我们的能力，而不是战争。我们要谨慎的使用武力，这样才能显示我们的谦卑，我们是这种道德的执行者。 我们要结束伊拉克战争，我们要保障这里人的安全。我们不必跟别人道歉，我们做了我们能做的努力，对于那些想要消灭我们的人，我想告诉你们，我们不会被你们消灭，只会消灭你们。 对于贫穷人国家的人们，我们会帮助你们，我们帮助你们有水，有粮食，有住房，对于那些富有的国家，我们不能再浪费我们所有的资源，我们面前的道路还在延伸。我们中的一些美国人，现在仍在沙漠和高山上巡逻，为美利坚而努力。他们所代表的是服务的精神，他们愿意在超越自身的活动中找到更伟大的意义。但是在这样一个伟大的时代，他们自身是需要被塑造的。我们愿意帮助陌生人，工人愿意付出牺牲，帮助那些失业的人。 消防员愿意为了帮助别人而付出生命，父母愿意抚养他们的孩子。我们拥有这样的精神，这些精神来来源于由来已久的传承，这些都是事实，在历史上，这些都是默默无闻的力量，我们要回归到这种传统之中，每个美国人都要意识到我们作为一个人和一个国家，对全世界都有责任，这塑造了我们的个性，而且使我们能应对更大的困难。上帝号召我们应对未来的信念和命运，无论各种种族，信仰，都能在这里实现你们的梦想，在四十多年前，很多人根本没有这样的机会，但是今天，所有人都拥有这样的机会。 我们必须铭记，我们是什么，我们有什么样的历史。在美国建国的时刻，在严寒中，我们的建国者，我们那个时候仍然被敌人所攻击。白色的雪被红色的血所染红。 让我们告诉未来的世界，在深冬，只有希望才能生存。 在我们这种严寒的冬天，让我们记得这些历史。我们要勇敢的面对来袭的风暴，当旅程结束，我们不会失望，上帝将会帮助我们，我们将把自由和和平留给我们的子孙后代，谢谢，谢谢你们。

gavin.w

My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.  I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath.  The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace.  Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.  At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.
So it has been.  So it must be with this generation of Americans.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood.  Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.  Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.  Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered.  Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics.  Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real.  They are serious and they are many.  They will not be met easily or in a short span of time.  But know this, America -  they will be met.
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.  The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation:  the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given.  It must be earned.  Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less.  It has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame.  Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.
For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.
(To be continued)

gavin.w

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life.  They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
This is the journey we continue today.  We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth.  Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began.  Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year.  Our capacity remains undiminished.  But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions - that time has surely passed.  Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done.  The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth.  We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.  We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.  We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.  And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.  All this we can do.  And all this we will do.
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans.  Their memories are short.  For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.  The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.  Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward.  Where the answer is no, programs will end.  And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill.  Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.  The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our Gross Domestic Product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.  Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations.  Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.  And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born:  know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.
(To be continued)

gavin.w

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.  They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please.  Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.
We are the keepers of this legacy.  Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort - even greater cooperation and understanding between nations.  We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan.  With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet.  We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.  We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers.  We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.  To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.  To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.  And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect.  For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains.  They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages.  We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves.  And yet, at this moment - a moment that will define a generation - it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies.  It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.  It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
Our challenges may be new.  The instruments with which we meet them may be new.  But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old.  These things are true.
They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history.  What is demanded then is a return to these truths.  What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
This is the price and the promise of citizenship.
This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.
This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed - why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.
So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.  In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river.  The capital was abandoned.  The enemy was advancing.  The snow was stained with blood.  At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:
"Let it be told to the future world...that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]."
America.  In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words.  With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come.  Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
(End)

gavin.w

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djj

我毕业论文写的就是关于我国家宪法和西方诸国宪法之比较。

怎么说呢，我感觉美国强大确实有其强大的道理，值得我们学习和借鉴，尤其一些制度层面上的。

中国有自己的国情和特色，不能照搬硬套，但一定要学习，只有学习才能看到差距，才能不断努力去变得强大。

伊万豆夫

楼上兄弟学什么专业？
我是政治学（行政管理）。
估计应该差不多。