克林顿在克林顿总统基金会论坛能源会议开幕演讲[合集5篇]

第一篇：克林顿在克林顿总统基金会论坛能源会议开幕演讲

克林顿在克林顿总统基金会论坛能源会议开幕演讲 Bill Clinton's Opening Remarks at Energy Conference

December 6, 2004 New York University

The Third Annual William J.Clinton Presidential Foundation Forum New Thinking on Energy Policy: Meeting the Challenges of Security, Development and Climate Change Thank you, good morning and welcome to the third annual Clinton Foundation forum at NYU.I'd like to thank my good friend John Sexton, his wife Lisa and all the people at NYU who have made us feel welcome here three years running.I'd also like to thank the other donors for this year’s forum to whom we owe a great deal of gratitude: Jim and Wendy Abrams, Nadine Schramm the president of Budd enterprises, Tommy Short and founder Tommy Short Charitable foundation and the chairman of the Earth Council Foundation and the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Science at Duke University.I want to thank the NGOs who have set up booths out in the foyer particularly to emphasize the importance of this issues we will discuss today to the developing world.I hope all of you will have a chance to stop by and get information on all the great work these organizations are doing.This meeting is well timed, not only because we have just come through a period of fifty-dollar oil but because of other important events taking place involving energy and the direction of energy policy in our country here.Tomorrow the American council on renewable energy is convening a meeting of 500 people in Washington called Renewable Energy(Phase two).In conjunction with the renewable energy and efficiency caucuses of the House and the Senate.On the December 8th, The National Commission on Energy policy, a bi-partisan group of energy experts from environment, labor, and consumer groups of which Jon Holdren one of today’s panelists is a co-chair is releasing an integrated energy strategy which is two years in the making to help Congress develop a national plan.For us, in the United States, the focus on energy is highly important at this moment for security, economic and environmental reasons.And I must say I was personally disappointed in the recent Presidential campaign, which I thought did air a lot of issues in great detail unfairly to both sides, there was almost no serious discussion of energy and the environment and in the three debates we had even though there were security, economic and environment issues raised there was only one question asked of the candidates about environmental policy and no specific question about energy policy.Even though the decisions we make or fail to make in this area may have a bigger impact on America and the world than virtually all the things that were debated.We are here to discuss two separate but related issues: One involves the dependence of America and other nations on imported oil in an age of terror and rapidly fluctuating prices.The other involves the dangers of global warming from excessive greenhouse gas emissions, especially in the developed world but increasingly in the developing world, mostly from oil and coal.The United States has about five percent of the world’s population;a little over twenty percent of the world’s GDP and emits about twenty five percent of the world’s greenhouse gases.About a third of those gases are emitted from transportation sources, a third from domestic and commercial buildings and a third from manufacturing and power generation.We also are now importing over half of our oil, about a fifty percent increase from fifteen years ago, seventy percent of that goes to transportation.The question that I would like to see us all focus on today is how can we respond to both issues, for the United States and for the world, including the developing world.That is how can we reduce our complete dependence on imported oil and how can we respond appropriately to global warming.For example, if Americans were to increase oil production in Anwar, for example, we could add to our supply about seven months worth of oil but it wouldn’t change our fundamental and destructive approach to green house gas emissions.If America were to rely more on the supply more on clean energy and conservation but we did it in an ineffective way it wouldn’t meet our energy needs and therefore would quickly fail.I want us to talk about what the real options are: How important is natural gas as a bridging energy source, which emits fewer greenhouse gases.How real is clean coal technology? We’re today seeing in America not insubstantial amount of carbon dioxide from coal usage being stored in oil wells, the Norwegians are trying to store it in deep-sea beds.How much confidence do we have in clean coal technology? How much more needs to be done before we know that these carbon dioxide gases can actually be stored deep underground without being eventually released with adverse consequences.Can there be dramatically greater efficiency in electricity transmissions with the use of digital technologies and power grids.What is the potential for greater production of clean fuels: biomass, hydrogen, electricity, mixed fuel for transport, wind and solar.On a large and a small scale.What is potential for greater conservation? Why can’t we make lighter cars from composite materials that would be equally safe and use much less fuel? What else can be done in buildings and in manufacturing? What is the role of government in the Untied States and wealthy countries, any wealthy country, to develop cap and trade systems on carbon dioxide emissions.To invest appropriately in research and development, to provide tax incentives to create new markets to produce and purchase clean energy and energy conservation technologies.What are the special problems of the developing nations? The world’s poorer will be hurt most by climate change, yet they are largely governed by people who believe, based on the American model, that the only way to create wealth and stay wealthy and get wealthier is to pour more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.As a result within a couple of decades China and India will be emitting even more greenhouse gases than the United States, unless they and people in other developing countries can be shown a way to avoid the energy patterns of American development and European development in a way that generates wealth jobs and doesn’t undermine it.There are clearly possibilities out there.Famously British Petroleum has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions ten percent below 1990 levels and added $650 million value to the company in the process.The Dominican Republic, whose president will join us shortly, is hosting the development of a 12 mega-watt wind energy facility with a potential for one ten times as large which can also serve Haiti.In the auto industry there already electric fuel vehicles and blended fuel vehicles available which get three times the mileage as SUVs.The History channel now on at lease two continents is dragging mobile solar generators, small-scale generators, on animal driven carts to remote villages to power a connection to its television network so learning can occur in places where schools are not available to young people.Mr.Bob Congel, who's here from Syracuse, is trying to have the world’s biggest development, commercial development, powered entirely by clean energy over the next couple of years.My library, which we just dedicated, reduced energy consumption by thirty-four percent, with three hundred and eight solar panels made in California, with pl astic piping to carry hot and cold water to supplement traditional energy usage made in Kansas.A red state and a blue state.I say that to make the point that this should not be a partisan issue.For a country like the United States or Europe, struggling with growth issues.Or Japan who sustained a decade of no growth until the recent more encouraging signs;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 high-paying, twenty-first century jobs.My personal candidate is in clean energy is in clean energy and energy conservation technology.The 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 adopted-all made in America, are simply a tiny indication of what can be done.Now 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 politically.The new energy economy is diffuse, entrepreneurial, under financed and by in large woefully under connected politically.And the transition energy economy, that is using natural gas as a bridging fuel, is often expensive in production and distribution and the financing must come from someone other than the consumers, particularly where the developing world is concerned.On the other hand, there is a lot of reason to hope.We have NGOs doing wonderful work, as I mentioned.Al 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 future.I’m convinced the biggest problem is the mind set which still dominates the decisions makers in the public and private sector.Notwithstanding the powerful example of British Petroleum, notwithstanding a lot of other examples which all of you know as well as I do.The great French writer Victor Hugo once said there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.With energy I think the slogan should be there is nothing more destructive than an idea whose time has come and gone and nobody will face up to it.My interest in this issue began almost thirty years ago.In 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 middle-South area.I’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 way.Almost that long ago I met one of our participants here, David Freeman, who was then head of the Tennessee valley authority then went to Los Angeles to run the local power company.Then at the tender age of somewhere north of seventy-five he decided he would start a new business in clean energy because he's always thinking about the future.In the White House we increased conservation standards for appliances, greened the White House complex;helped to draft the Kyoto accord which with all it's flaws was still an important step;proposed the BTU tax which helped to get my head handed to me by the Congress;and finally for a measly 4.3 cense increase in the gas tax probably lost the Congress in the '94 election.I also proposed for three years running a twenty-five percent tax credit for the production and purchase of clean energy technology and energy conservation products.And 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 oppose.Because it created a new energy economy.Now Senator Lieberman will be appearing on this panel, he and Senator McCain chair a bi-partisan task force looking in to global warming.Not 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 change.I think this is becoming a bi-partisan issue in America.I 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 world.So it seems to me that these are the major issues that ought to be addressed.I thank the panelists;there is an astonishing array of talent on these panels today and a lot of talent in this audience.So let's get on with the program and see what we can learn and do.Thank you very much.

第二篇：克林顿在总统图书馆发表致谢演讲

克林顿在总统图书馆发表致谢演讲

President Clinton“s Remarks at Library Dedication

11月18日，美国第12个总统图书馆——克林顿图书馆正式向公众开放，克林顿政府要员、前总统老布什和现任总统小布什、演艺明星等人前往捧场，出席总人数估计达到了3万人。该图书馆名为威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿总统中心，座落在美国前总统克林顿的家乡美

国中南部阿肯色州的小石城。

按照美国政府的传统，军乐团奏起《向总统致敬》，克林顿在老布什、小布什和前总统卡特的陪同下走上台。早些时候他们的夫人已经上台。由于下着大雨，每人都撑着一把伞。November 18, 2004 PRESIDENT Clinton:

(Applause)Well, ladies and gentlemen, if my beloved mother were here, she would remind me that rain is liquid sunshine and that I shouldn”t complain about this because the ground probably needs it and somebody is benefiting from it.Mr.President and Mrs.Bush, President and Mrs.Carter, President and Mrs.Bush, members of the Eisenhower, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy and Carter families;to the vast number of members of Congress and former members of Congress here--I don“t know where they are because you”re all in ponchos--(cheers)--but there they are;there“s a huge group from Congress, and the president sent four planes down and I thank him for that;to all the guests from other countries;and my fellow Americans--welcome to my rainy library dedication.(Laughter)

Thank you Skip Rutherford and all those on my staff and the volunteers from Arkansas and across America who work so hard to make this event just perfect--(he laughs)--and except for one thing, it is.I thank the previous speakers and those who have sung and entertained.Mr.President, I can”t thank you enough for your generous words and for coming to the opening at all.I mean, after all, you just delayed your own library opening by four years.(Laughter.)I congratulate you on your election, and I wish you Godspeed, especially in a new and more hopeful time for peace in the Middle East.I remember the first time I ever heard George W.Bush give a speech in Iowa, and I called a friend of mine and I said: “My God, that guy can beat us.He is a good politician.” He has been very kind and generous to my family, and I thank him for that.Today we“re all red, white and blue.I thank former President Bush and Mrs.Bush for coming and for their service to our nation.President Bush, I loved all that stuff you said.But I want to thank you for something seriously.In 1989, after I had been governor for a long time, you were the president who finally called us together and asked us to develop national education goals for America so that all our children could get a good education.It was the beginning of a serious reform effort, which I tried to carry through and which I know President Bush has tried to push.So thank you for doing that and for giving me the opportunity to work with you.Thank you President and Mrs.Carter for all you did in the White House and all you”ve done in the years since to make the world more just and peaceful.John Quincy Adams once said, “There is nothing in life so pathetic as a former president.” Well, he turned out to be wrong because of his own service, and President Carter has proved that nothing could be further from the truth.(Applause)

He just told you we met 30 years ago when he was trying to help me.He didn“t tell you that, less than a year later and less than a mile from here, Jimmy Carter asked Hillary and me to join in his campaign for the presidency.We did, and as you can see from this day, it was the beginning of quite a ride.I recently spoke with President Ford, who, at 91, is unable to come and--with his extraordinary wife, Betty.But they still are strong.Yesterday I received a wonderful letter from Nancy Reagan, who remains in our thoughts and prayers.I thank the Fords and Nancy and the late President Reagan for their service to our country.I want to thank all the vast numbers of Congress and former members who are here who served with me.I couldn”t have done most of the good things we did without “em, and they”re not responsible for any of the mistakes I made.I can“t see through all the umbrellas and all the ponchos or whatever you call those plastic things that make you all look so beautiful--(laughter)--but I”m pretty sure Senator Kerry“s out there.And if he is, I want to thank him and I”m glad he“s back on the job.(Applause)

I want to thank the people of my beloved home state for your support, for your love, your friendship, the trust, the sacrifices you so willingly made when we worked together here and when you carried me to the White House.I thank the friends of a lifetime who also made indispensable contributions.I”ve said a lot of times I may be the only guy that ever got elected president because of his personal friends.I thank my pastor, Rex Horne, and all the other ministers here who have taught me, prayed with me, and counseled me over the years.I thank God for my family and Hillary“s family.A lot of them are here today, and I thank you for making this whole long trip.Like I said, I do wish my mother were here.She would have enjoyed seeing all of you, even in the rain, and I promise you--(he laughs)--you would have enjoyed seeing her.Most of all, I want to thank Hillary and Chelsea.Now Hillary”s a senator and she has all the power in our family, but she“s proving what I always said.She has the best combination of mind and heart, conviction and compassion I”ve ever encountered, though I must say Chelsea is giving her mother a good run.Chelsea, your life and our love for you gave meaning to our public service.They made the presidency the second-most important job I ever had.I love you both so much.Thank you.And let me lastly thank the people who have contributed to and built this library: the School of Public Service and the foundation, my staff, my former staff, the board, the architects, the exhibit designers, the landscapers, the contractors, the 1,500 people who put this building up, the city and state officials who supported it.I thank especially the architects, Jim Polshek and Richard Olcott;Ralph Applebaum for the wonderful exhibits;and my longtime friend, Bill Clark, whose company built this building.I also want to say that I thank those of you who are continuing to help in the work of the library and the foundation.This library tells the story of America at the end of the 20th century, of a dramatically different time in the way we worked and lived.We moved out of the Cold War into an age of interdependence with new possibilities and new dangers.We moved out of an information--I mean, an industrial economy into an information-age economy.We moved out of a period when we were obsessed with overcoming the legacy of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans to a point where we were challenged to deal with an explosion of diversity, of people from all races and ethnic groups and religions from around the world, and we had to change the role of government to deal with that.That whole story is here, in 80 million documents, 21 million e-mails--two of them mine--(laughter)--2 million photographs, and 80,000 artifacts.In the interests of openness and public access, we are asking more than 100,000 of these documents to be opened early before the law requires.I thank those who are working on the Clinton School of Public Service, because I want more young people to go into public service.I thank those who are working in Harlem and here on my foundation or who visit us on the Internet, as Hillary said, at clintonfoundation.org, who help us to promote religious and racial reconciliation, to advance citizen service, to promote economic empowerment for poor people in poor communities, and to continue the fight against AIDS.In three years in Africa, the Caribbean, India and China, we have succeeded in cutting the price of the testing equipment and generic drugs by 70 percent, and we hope by 2006, and expect, to serve over 2 million people with medicine who were not getting it on the day I left office.Now this library, of course, is primarily about my presidency.I want to say a special word of thanks to Al Gore and to Tipper for the indispensable contribution that they made.And I told Al today that this library won an international environmental award, even though it“s got a lot of glass.Because of solar panels and a lot of other improvements, we cut the energy usage here by 34 percent.So Al, thanks for the inspiration, and I”m still trying to measure up to the challenge you set for me so long ago.I believe the job of a president is to understand and explain the time in which he serves, to set forth a vision of where we need to go and a strategy of how to get there, and then to pursue it with all his mind and heart--bending only in the face of error or new circumstances and the crises which are unforeseen, a problem that affects all of us.When I became president the world was a new and very different place, as I said.And I thought about how we ought to confront it.America has two great dominant strands of political thought;we“re represented up here on this stage: conservatism, which at its very best draws lines that should not be crossed;and progressivism, which at its very best breaks down barriers that are no longer needed or should never have been erected in the first place.It seemed to me that in 1992 we needed to do both to prepare America for the 21st century--to be more conservative in things like erasing the deficit and paying down the debt, and preventing crime and punishing criminals, and protecting and supporting families, and enforcing things like child support laws, and reforming the military to meet the new challenges of the 21st century.And we needed to be more progressive in creating good jobs, reducing poverty, increasing the quality of public education, opening the doors of college to all, increasing access to health care, investing more in science and technology, and building new alliances with our former adversaries, and working for peace across the world and peace in America, across all the lines that divide us.Now when I proposed to do both, we said that all of them were consistent with the great American values of opportunity, responsibility and community.We labeled the approach ”New Democrat.“ It then became known as ”the Third Way.“ It was--as it was embraced by progressive parties across the world.But I like the slogan we had way back in 1992, ”putting people first,“ because in the end, I always kept score by a simple measure: Were ordinary people better off when I stopped than when I started?

I grew up in the pre-television age, in a family of uneducated but smart, hard-working, caring storytellers.They taught me that everyone has a story.And that made politics intensely personal to me.It was about giving people better stories.That”s why I asked those six people to talk here today.When I think of the Family Leave Law, I think of that good man who brought his dying daughter to see me in the White House on a Sunday morning, and who grabbed me as I walked away and said, “The time I got to take off from work was the most important time in my life.”

I think of people like that fine woman who worked herself out of welfare and now runs her own business.I remember the first woman I ever talked to who went from welfare to work.I said, “What”s the best thing about it?“ She said, ”When my boy goes to school and they say, “What does your mama do for a living,” he can give an answer.“ Those are the things that make politics real to me, at home and around the world.The record is all in there--what we did at home, what we did abroad.I thank Bono for singing about Northern Ireland and President Bush for mentioning the Balkans.There were many other places we tried to help.But the record is there.Even where we fell short, we pushed forward.And what I want to say is, if you think of the biggest disappointment around the world to me, I tried so hard for peace in the Middle East.I thank Shimon Peres and the children of Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak for being here today, and the current foreign minister of Israel for being here today.I did all I could.But when we had seven years of progress toward peace, there was one whole year when, for the first time in the history of the state of Israel, not one person died of a terrorist attack, when the Palestinians began to believe they could have a shared future.And so, Mr.President, again, I say: I hope you get to cross over into the promised land of Middle East peace.We have a good opportunity, and we are all praying for you.(Applause)

Finally, let me say this.Quite apart from all the details, the thing I want most is for people who come to this library, whether they”re Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives, to see that public service is noble and important, that the choices and decisions leaders make affect the lives of millions of Americans and people all across the world.I want young people to want to see not only what I did with my life, but to see what they could do with their lives.Because this is mostly the story of what we, the people, can do when we work together.Yes, this library is the symbol of a bridge, a bridge to the 21st century.It“s been called one of the great achievements of the new age, and a British magazine said it looked like a glorified house trailer.And I thought, well, that”s about me, you know? I“m a little red and a little blue.(Laughter)

What it is to me is the symbol of not only what I tried to do but what I want to do with the rest of my life--building bridges from yesterday to tomorrow, building bridges across racial and religious and ethnic and income and political divides.Building bridges.I believe our mission in this new century is clear.For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world.We can”t escape each other.And while we have to fight our enemies, we can“t possibly kill, jail or occupy all of them.Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community and an American community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.What are those values? And I want to say this.This is important.I don”t want to be too political here, but it bothers me when America gets as divided as it was.I once said to a friend of mine, about three days before the election--I heard all these terrible things--I said, “You know, am I the only person in the entire United States of America who likes both George W.Bush and John Kerry, who believes they”re both good people, who believes they both love our country and they just see the world differently?“

What should our shared values be? Everybody counts.Everybody deserves a chance.Everybody”s got a responsibility to fulfill.We all do better when we work together.Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.So I tell you we can continue building our bridge to tomorrow.It will require some red American line-drawing and some blue American barrier-breaking, but we can do it together.Thank you and God bless you.(Applause)

第三篇：克林顿在总统图书馆发表致谢演讲

克林顿在总统图书馆发表致谢演讲

名人演讲稿

PRESIDENTClinton:

(Alause)Well,ladiesandgentlemen,ifmybelovedmotherwerehere,shewouldremindmethatrainisliquidsuhineandthatIshouldn'tcomplainaboutthisbecausethegroundprobablyneedsitandsomebodyisbenefitingfromit.

Mr.PresidentandMrs.Bush,PresidentandMrs.Carter,PresidentandMrs.Bush,membersoftheEisen

hower,Nixon,Johon,KeedyandCarterfamilietothevastnumberofmembersofCongreandformermembersofCongrehere--Idon'tknowwheretheyarebecauseyou'reallinponchos--(cheers)--buttheretheyare;there'sahugegroupfromCongre,andthepresidentsentfourplanesdownandIthankhimforthat;toalltheguestsfromothercountrieandmyfellowAmerica--welcometomyrainylibrarydedication.

(Laughter)

ThankyouSkipRutherfordandallthoseonmystaffandthevolunteersfromArkaasandacroAmericawhoworksohardtomakethiseventjustperfect--(helaughs)--andexceptforonething,itis.

Ithankthepreviouseakersandthosewhohavesungandentertained.

Mr.President,Ican'tthankyouenoughforyourgenerouswordsandforcomingtotheopeningatall.Imean,afterall,youjustdelayedyourownlibraryopeningbyfouryears.(Laughter.)Icongratulateyouonyourelection,andIwishyouGodeed,eeciallyinanewandmorehopefultimeforpeaceintheMiddleEast.

IrememberthefirsttimeIeverheardGeorgeW.BushgiveaeechinIowa,andIcalledafriendofmineandIsaid:“MyGod,thatguycanbeatus.Heisagoodpolitician.”Hehasbeenverykindandgeneroustomyfamily,andIthankhimforthat.

Todaywe'reallred,whiteandblue.

IthankformerPresidentBushandMrs.Bushforcomingandfortheirservicetoournation.PresidentBush,Ilovedallthatstuffyousaid.ButIwanttothankyouforsomethingseriously.In1989,afterIhadbeengovernorforalongtime,youwerethepresidentwhofinallycalledustogetherandaskedustodevelopnationaleducationgoalsforAmericasothatallourchildrencouldgetagoodeducation.Itwasthebegiingofaseriousreformeffort,whichItriedtocarrythroughandwhichIknowPresidentBushhastriedtopush.Sothankyoufordoingthatandforgivingmetheoortunitytoworkwithyou.

ThankyouPresidentandMrs.CarterforallyoudidintheWhiteHouseandallyou'vedoneintheyearssincetomaketheworldmorejustandpeaceful.JohnQuincyAdamsoncesaid,“Thereisnothinginlifesopatheticasaformerpresident.”Well,heturnedouttobewrongbecauseofhisownservice,an

dPresidentCarterhasprovedthatnothingcouldbefurtherfromthetruth.

(Alause)

Hejusttoldyouwemet30yearsagowhenhewastryingtohelpme.Hedidn'ttellyouthat,lethanayearlaterandlethanamilefromhere,JimmyCarteraskedHillaryandmetojoininhiscampaignforthepresidency.Wedid,andasyoucanseefromthisday,itwasthebegiingofquitearide.

Irecentlyokewi

thPresidentFord,who,at91,isunabletocomeand--withhisextraordinarywife,Betty.Buttheystillarestrong.YesterdayIreceivedawonderfulletterfromNancyReagan,whoremaiinourthoughtsandprayers.IthanktheFordsandNancyandthelatePresidentReaganfortheirservicetoourcountry.

IwanttothankallthevastnumbersofCongreandformermemberswhoareherewhoservedwithme.Icouldn'thavedonemostofthegoodthingswedidwithout'em,andthey'renotreoibleforanyofthemistakesImade.

Ican'tseethroughalltheumbrellasandalltheponchosorwhateveryoucallthoseplasticthingsthatmakeyoualllooksobeautiful--(laughter)--butI'mprettysureSenatorKerry'soutthere.Andifheis,IwanttothankhimandI'mgladhe'sbackonthejob.

(Alause)

Iwanttothankthepeopleofmybelovedhomestateforyoursuort,foryourlove,yourfriendship,thetrust,thesacrificesyousowillinglymadewhenweworkedtogetherhereandwhenyoucarriedmetotheWhiteHouse.

Ithankthefriendsofalifetimewhoalsomadeindieablecontributio.I'vesaidalotoftimesImaybetheonlyguythatevergotelectedpresidentbecauseofhispersonalfriends.

Ithankmypastor,RexHorne,andalltheotherministersherewhohavetaughtme,prayedwithme,andcoueledmeovertheyears.

IthankGodformyfamilyandHillary'sfamily.Alotofthemareheretoday,andIthankyouformakingthiswholelongtrip.

LikeIsaid,Idowishmymotherwerehere.Shewouldhaveenjoyedseeingallofyou,evenintherain,andIpromiseyou--(helaughs)--youwouldhaveenjoyedseeingher.

Mostofall,IwanttothankHillaryandChelsea.NowHillary'sasenatorandshehasallthepowerinourfamily,butshe'sprovingwhatIalwayssaid.Shehasthebestcombinationofmindandheart,convictionandcompaionI'veeverencountered,thoughImustsayChelseaisgivinghermotheragoodrun.Chelsea,yourlifeandourloveforyougavemeaningtoourpublicservice.Theymadethepresidencythesecond-mostimportantjobIeverhad.

Iloveyoubothsomuch.Thankyou.

Andletmelastlythankthepeoplewhohavecontributedtoandbuiltthislibrary:theSchoolofPublicServiceandthefoundation,mystaff,myformerstaff,theboard,thearchitects,theexhibitdesigners,thelandscapers,thecontractors,the1,500peoplewhoputthisbuildingup,thecityandstateofficialswhosuortedit.Ithankeeciallythearchitects,JimPolshekandRichardOlcott;RalphAlebaumforthewonderfulexhibitandmylongtimefriend,BillClark,whosecompanybuiltthisbuilding.

IalsowanttosaythatIthankthoseofyouwhoarecontinuingtohelpintheworkofthelibraryandthefoundation.

ThislibrarytellsthestoryofAmericaattheendofthe20thcentury,ofadramaticallydifferenttimeinthewayweworkedandlived.WemovedoutoftheColdWarintoanageofinterdependencewithnewpoibilitiesandnewdangers.Wemovedoutofaninformation--Imean,anindustrialeconomyintoaninformation-ageeconomy.WemovedoutofaperiodwhenwewereoeedwithovercomingthelegacyofslaveryanddiscriminationagaitAfrican-Americatoapointwherewewerechallengedtodealwithanexplosionofdiversity,ofpeoplefromallracesandethnicgrouandreligiofromaroundtheworld,andwehadtochangetheroleofgovernmenttodealwiththat.

Thatwholestoryishere,in80milliondocuments,21millione-mails--twoofthemmine--(laughter)--2millionphotographs,and80,000artifacts.Intheinterestsofopeeandpublicacce,weareaskingmorethan100,000ofthesedocumentstobeopenedearlybeforethelawrequires.

IthankthosewhoareworkingontheClintonSchoolofPublicService,becauseIwantmoreyoungpeopletogointopublicservice.

IthankthosewhoareworkinginHarlemandhereonmyfoundationorwhovisitusontheInternet,asHillarysaid,atclintonfoundation.org,whohelpustopromotereligiousandracialreconciliation,toadvancecitizenservice,topromoteeconomicempowermentforpoorpeopleinpoorcommunities,andtocontinuethefightagaitAIDS.InthreeyearsinAfrica,theCariean,IndiaandChina,wehavesucceededincuttingthepriceofthetestingequipmentandgenericdrugsby70percent,andwehopeby2006,andexpect,toserveover2millionpeoplewithmedicinewhowerenotgettingitonthedayIleftoffice.

Nowthislibrary,ofcourse,isprimarilyaboutmypresidency.IwanttosayaecialwordofthankstoAlGoreandtoTierfortheindieablecontributionthattheymade.AndItoldAltodaythatthislibrarywonaninternationalenvironmentalaward,eventhoughit'sgotalotofgla.Becauseofsolarpanelsandalotofotherimprovements,wecuttheenergyusagehereby34percent.SoAl,thanksfortheiiration,andI'mstilltryingtomeasureuptothechallengeyousetformesolongago.

Ibelievethejobofapresidentistounderstandandexplainthetimeinwhichheserves,tosetforthavisionofwhereweneedtogoandastrategyofhowtogetthere,andthentopursueitwithallhismindandheart--bendingonlyinthefaceoferrorornewcircumstancesandthecriseswhichareunforeseen,aproblemthataffectsallofus.

WhenIbecamepresidenttheworldwasanewandverydifferentplace,asIsaid.AndIthoughtabouthowweoughttoconfrontit.Americahastwogreatdominantstrandsofpoliticalthought;we'rerepresenteduphereonthisstage:coervatism,whichatitsverybestdrawslinesthatshouldnotbecroed;andprogreivism,whichatitsverybestbreaksdownbarriersthatarenolongerneededorshouldneverhavebeenerectedinthefirstplace.

Itseemedtomethatin1992weneededtodobothtoprepareAmericaforthe21stcentury--tobemorecoervativeinthingslikeerasingthedeficitandpayingdownthedebt,andpreventingcrimeandpunishingcriminals,andprotectingandsuortingfamilies,andenforcingthingslikechildsuortlaws,andreformingthemilitarytomeetthenewchallengesofthe21stcentury.Andweneededtobemoreprogreiveincreatinggoodjo,reducingpoverty,increasingthequalityofpubliceducation,openingthedoorsofcollegetoall,increasingaccetohealthcare,investingmoreinscienceandtechnology,andbuildingnewallianceswithourformeradversaries,andworkingforpeaceacrotheworldandpeaceinAmerica,acroallthelinesthatdivideus.

NowwhenIproposedtodoboth,wesaidthatallofthemwerecoistentwiththegreatAmericanvaluesofoortunity,reoibilityandcommunity.Welabeledthearoach“NewDemocrat.”Itthenbecameknownas“theThirdWay.”Itwas--asitwasembracedbyprogreivepartiesacrotheworld.ButIlikethesloganwehadwaybackin1992,“puttingpeoplefirst,”becauseintheend,Ialwayskeptscorebyasimplemeasure:WereordinarypeoplebetteroffwhenIstoedthanwhenIstarted?

Igrewupinthepre-televisionage,inafamilyofuneducatedbutsmart,hard-working,caringstorytellers.Theytaughtmethateveryonehasastory.Andthatmadepoliticsinteelypersonaltome.Itwasaboutgivingpeoplebetterstories.That'swhyIaskedthosesixpeopletotalkheretoday.WhenIthinkoftheFamilyLeaveLaw,IthinkofthatgoodmanwhobroughthisdyingdaughtertoseemeintheWhiteHouseonaSundaymorning,andwhograedmeasIwalkedawayandsaid,“ThetimeIgottotakeofffromworkwasthemostimportanttimeinmylife.”

Ithinkofpeoplelikethatfinewomanwhoworkedherselfoutofwelfareandnowruherownbusine.IrememberthefirstwomanIevertalkedtowhowentfromwelfaretowork.Isaid,“What'sthebestthingaboutit?”Shesaid,“Whenmyboygoestoschoolandtheysay,'Whatdoesyourmamadoforaliving,'hecangiveanawer.”Thosearethethingsthatmakepoliticsrealtome,athomeandaroundtheworld.

Therecordisallinthere--whatwedidathome,whatwedidabroad.IthankBonoforsingingaboutNorthernIrelandandPresidentBushformentioningtheBalka.Thereweremanyotherplaceswetriedtohelp.

Buttherecordisthere.Evenwherewefellshort,wepushedforward.AndwhatIwanttosayis,ifyouthinkofthebiggestdisaointmentaroundtheworldtome,ItriedsohardforpeaceintheMiddleEast.IthankShimonPeresandthechildrenofYitzhakRabinandEhudBarakforbeingheretoday,andthecurrentforeignministerofIsraelforbeingheretoday.IdidallIcould.

Butwhenwehadsevenyearsofprogretowardpeace,therewasonewholeyearwhen,forthefirsttimeinthehistoryofthestateofIsrael,notonepersondiedofaterroristattack,whenthePalestiniabegantobelievetheycouldhaveasharedfuture.Andso,Mr.President,again,Isay:IhopeyougettocrooverintothepromisedlandofMiddleEastpeace.Wehaveagoodoortunity,andweareallprayingforyou.好范文版权所有

(Alause)

Finally,letmesaythis.Quiteapartfromallthedetails,thethingIwantmostisforpeoplewhocometothislibrary,whetherthey'reRepublicaorDemocrats,liberalsorcoervatives,toseethatpublicserviceisnobleandimportant,thatthechoicesanddecisioleadersmakeaffectthelivesofmillioofAmericaandpeopleallacrotheworld.

IwantyoungpeopletowanttoseenotonlywhatIdidwithmylife,buttoseewhattheycoulddowiththeirlives.Becausethisismostlythestoryofwhatwe,thepeople,candowhenweworktogether.

Yes,thislibraryisthesymbolofabridge,abridgetothe21stcentury.It'sbeencalledoneofthegreatachievementsofthenewage,andaBritishmagazinesaiditlookedlikeaglorifiedhousetrailer.AndIthought,well,that'saboutme,youknow?I'malittleredandalittleblue.

(Laughter)

WhatitistomeisthesymbolofnotonlywhatItriedtodobutwhatIwanttodowiththerestofmylife--buildingbridgesfromyesterdaytotomorrow,buildingbridgesacroracialandreligiousandethnicandincomeandpoliticaldivides.

Buildingbridges.

Ibelieveourmiioninthisnewcenturyisclear.Forgoodorill,weliveinaninterdependentworld.Wecan'tescapeeachother.Andwhilewehavetofightourenemies,wecan'tpoiblykill,jailoroccupyallofthem.Therefore,wehavetoendourlivesbuildingaglobalcommunityandanAmericancommunityofsharedreoibilities,sharedvalues,sharedbenefits.

Whatarethosevalues?AndIwanttosaythis.Thisisimportant.Idon'twanttobetoopoliticalhere,butitbothersmewhenAmericagetsasdividedasitwas.Ioncesaidtoafriendofmine,aboutthreedaysbeforetheelection--Iheardalltheseterriblethings--Isaid,“Youknow,amItheonlypersonintheentireUnitedStatesofAmericawholikesbothGeorgeW.BushandJohnKerry,whobelievesthey'rebothgoodpeople,whobelievestheybothloveourcountryandtheyjustseetheworlddifferently?”

Whatshouldoursharedvaluesbe?Everybodycounts.Everybodydeservesachance.Everybody'sgotareoibilitytofulfill.Wealldobetterwhenweworktogether.Ourdifferencesdomatter,butourcommonhumanitymattersmore.

SoItellyouwecancontinuebuildingourbridgetotomorrow.ItwillrequiresomeredAmericanline-drawingandsomeblueAmericanbarrier-breaking,butwecandoittogether.

ThankyouandGodbleyou.(Alause)好范文版权所有

第四篇：克林顿总统1998年在香港的演讲

克林顿总统1998年在香港的演讲

名人演讲稿

Thankyouverymuch,Thankyou.ThankyouverymuchtoExecutiveTung,Mrs.Tung,membersofyourgovermentandcitizeofHongKong.HillaryandIandourdelegationincludingseveralmembersoftheUnitedStatesCongre,andmembersofourcabinetandotherAmericaarealldelightedtobeheretonight.好范文版权所有

HongKongisaworldsymboloftrade,enterprise,freedomandglobalinterdependence.Visitorscomehereforfashionandfood.Theworldcoumesyourelectronicsproductsandyourmovies.AndeveryAmerican,whohaseverwantedtotravelanywhere,haswantedtocometoHongKong.Thisis,itistrue,thefirstvisittoHongKongofapresidentandafortuitousoneformethatIcancomeandwishallofyouahayaiversary.ButitisnotmyfirsttriptoHongKong.MywifeandIhavebothbeenhereinourpreviouslives,oraswesaywhenwearebackhome,backwhenwehadalife.好范文版权所有

IwantyoutoknowthattheUnitedStatescoidersHongKongvitaltothefuturenotonlyofChinaandAsia,butoftheUnitedStatesandtheworldaswell.Ourtiesmustgrowstrongerandtheywill.Andthispresentfinancialcrisistoo,willpa,ifweworktogetherwithdisciplineandvisiontoliftthefortunesofourneighbors.BelievemethereisnooneinAmericawhois

noteagerlyawaitingtheresumptionofrealgrowthandstabilityintheAsianeconomyandwearepreparedtodowhateverwecantosuortit.WealsoareciatewhatChinaandHongKonghavedoneandthepricethathasbeenpaidtostablizethesituation.Soletuslookforwardtothefuture,withallitsvitalityandallitsuredictableevents.Somewillbedifficultbutmostwillbeverygoodif,asIsaidtopresidentJiang,westayontherightsideofhistory.

第五篇：克林顿总统1998年在西安的演讲

克林顿总统1998年在西安的演讲

名人演讲稿

MayorFeng,GovernorCheng,SecretaryLi,NiMenHao.Thankyouforthekeytoyourcityandforthismagnificentwelcome.Hereinthisancientcapital,Chinaseemsveryyoungtometonight,bleedwithbothaproudhistoryandthepromiseoftomorrow.Xi'anwasperhathemostopenandculturallyadvancedcityintheentireworld.Fromthisplace,traderoutesextendedthroughAsiatoEuropeandAfrica.Andtothisplace,greatthinkerscame,readingphilosophyandnewideasthathavecontributedtothegreatneofChina.IlookforwardtoseeingtheTerracottaWarriors(兵马俑),theoldcitywalls,theMuslimquarter.IlookforwardtolearningmoreaboutChina'sgreatcontributiotothestoreofhuman

knowledgefrommedicineandprinting,tomathematicsandastronomy.Discoveriesonwhichsomuchofthewholeworldprogreisbased.AndIwanttoseemoreofthenewnationyouarebuildingonascaleeventheemperorscouldnothaveforeseen.Chinathatgaveusprinting,nowboastfaxmachines,computersandcellphones.Xi'anishometofilmmakers,internetexplorers,businepeopleofeverydescription.Hereinthiscity,famousforcalligraphy,anewchapterinChina'sstoryisbeingwritten.好范文版权所有

WeAmericaadmireyouraccomplishments,youreconomy,yourhardwork,creativityandvision,youreffortsagaithungerandpoverty,yourworkwithusonpeaceandstabilityinKoreaandSouthAsia.AnewdayisdawningfortheChinesepeople.ForChina'sgreatneliesasalwayswithitspeople.OurownhistoryhasconvincedAmericathatthegreatneofanycountryismeasuredinitspeople,intheirsharedreverenceforfamilyandcommunity,forworkandlearning,andintheir

individualthoughts,beliefs,andcreativity.Inthisglobalinformationagewherebotheconomicgrowthandindividualoortunityarebasedonideas,acommitmenttoprovidingallhumanbeingstheoortunitytodeveloptheirfullpotential,isvitaltothestrengthandsucceofthenewChinaaswell.AsItravelacroChina,IhopetolearnasmuchasIcanabouttheChinesepeople,yourhistory,andyourdreamsforthefuture.AndIhopetohelptheChinesepeopleunderstandmoreofAmerican'shistory,theleotheAmericanpeoplehavedrawnfromit,andthedreamswe

holdforthe21stCentury.