施瓦辛格的演讲

第一篇：施瓦辛格的演讲

施瓦辛格的演讲

Now let me tell you that if someone told me that something is impossible,I will go out and do it,this is just the way I always was.I was told to my face that you are nothing but a giant muscle.You can’t act,you have no future,and you have an accent that’s laughable.Ignore the naysayers and work like hell,trust yourself,break some rules,don’t be afraid to fail.I have made some fortune in several careers,and I have been very successful in several careers,by believing in myself.Let me tell you,you are going to find that naysayers are in every turn that you make.Don’t listen,just visualize your goal,know where exactly where you want to go,trust yourself,get out there and work like hell.And break some of the rules and never ever be afraid of failure.I couldn’t have gone through one lifting event in my life if I had been afraid of failure,because of course there’s always a chance that you can fail.When you lift the weight I tried ten times to lift bench press 500 pounds and I failed,but the eleventh time I did it.So never give up and never be afraid of failure,because otherwise you box yourself and you limit yourself.You all should go and be hungry for success,you should be hungry to make your mark and you should hungry to be seen and be heard and to have effect out there.You have to think outside the box,that’s what I believe after all,what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by anyone and to avoid trouble?The only way that I ever got any place was breaking some of the rules.When you’re out there,parting,horsing around,someone out there at the same time is working hard.Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning,just remember that.Now if you want to coast through your life,don’t pay any attention to any of those rules.But if you want to win,there is absolutely no way around hard,hard work.You have to think outside the box,that’s what I believe after all.What is the point of being on this earth,if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and to avoid trouble?The only way that I ever got any place was by breaking some of the rules.Don’t be afraid of fail,anything I have ever attempted,I was always willing to fail.You can’t always win but don’t be afraid to make decisions.You can’t be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision,and you know that it is the right thing to do.And success will come.So don’t be afraid of fail.Don’t listen to the naysayers.I mean,how many times have you heard that you can’t do this and you can’t do that and it’s never been done before.I heard this all over the time.I love it when someone says no one has done this before,because when I do it that means I am the first one that has done it.So pay no attention to the people that say it can’t be done.Just remember,you can;t climb the ladder of success with your hands in the pockets.

第二篇：施瓦辛格关于气候变化的演讲

施瓦辛格关于气候变化的演讲

Well, thank you very much for the wonderful introduction.Thank you, Secretary General, Mr.President, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen:

I have come to feel great affection for the peoples of the world because they've always been so

welcoming to me—if it is as a bodybuilding champion, or as a movie star, private citizen, or as the

governor of the great state of California.And you, their delegates, have also made me feel very

welcome here this morning.So I want to thank you for this great honor for having me here.www.xiexiebang.com

I also want to thank my wife and my partner and the First Lady of California, Maria Shriver, for

being here today with me.Give her a big hand—right over there she is.Now, I've been asked—I've been asked to talk to you today about what is happening in California.What are we doing about climate change? Well, ladies and gentlemen, something remarkable is

beginning to stir—something revolutionary, something historic and transformative.Let me give you some background.California already leads the nation in information technology.We lead the nation in nanotechnology，in biotechnology, and in medical technology.We generate one of every four U.S.patents, and we

attract almost half of all U.S.venture capital.And according to The Economist magazine, California

is also home to three of the top six universities in the world.And in addition to all of this, California

is the seventh largest economy in the world.Now I do not mention these things to just simply boast or brag.I'm mentioning it because

California is a very powerful state, a very powerful place.And when do something, it has

consequences.And here is what we are doing.California is mobilizing—technologically, financially, and politically—to fight global climate

change.Now we're not doing this alone.While California is leading in the U.S., we are building on

the work of the European countries who have led the way up until now and have done extraordinary

work.England has already met its Kyoto goals.Germany has pioneered solar.The EU has led with

its trading system.And the list goes on and on.But California, because of its unique position, is on the cutting edge of what is to come.And what

is coming will benefit the countries and peoples represented in this chamber.Last year in California，we enacted greenhouse gas emission standards that were beyond anyone else's dreams.We enacted

the world’s first low carbon fuel standards.Now do I believe that California’s standards will solve global warming? Of course not.What we’re

doing is changing the dynamic, preparing the way and encouraging the future.The aerospace

industry built the modern economy of Southern California.The computer industry and the internet

built the economy of the Silicon Valley.And now green, clean technology—along with

biotech—will take California to the next level.Right now, in California, the brightest scientists from around the world and the smartest venture

capitalists are racing to find new energy technologies and the solution to global warming.It is a

race that is fueled by billions and billions of dollars.Last year alone, California received more than

1.1 billion dollars in clean tech investment.And this amount is expected to grow by 20 to 30%

annually for the next ten years.More venture capital is being invested in clean tech than in

telecommunications.Now I have been to those labs and research parks.I have talked with the

scientists and to the venture capitalists.I have seen their ambition.And let me tell you, I would not

www.xiexiebang.com bet against it.So what does all this mean for the nations in this chamber? Well the cell phone, which started as a

tool for the rich, is now widespread in the developing world.The price has dropped dramatically，and therefore it can be afforded by almost everyone.And the same thing will happen with

environmental technologies.And it is in the developed world's best interests to help the poor

nations finance these advancements.When it comes to the environment, the technologies are changing; the economics are changing; and

the urgency's changing.So the question today is this: Are the nations of the world ready are to

change? I believe that California will do great things, amazing things, but we need the world to do great things, too.The time has come to stop looking back at the Kyoto protocol.The time has come to stop looking

back in blame or suspicion.The consequences of global climate change are so pressing—that it

doesn’t matter who was responsible for the past.What matters is who is answerable for the future.And that means all of us.The rich nations and the poor nations have different responsibilities, but one responsibility we all

have—and that is action.Action, action, action.The current stalemate between the developed and

the developing worlds must be broken.It is time to come together in a new international agreement

that can be embraced by rich and poor nations alike.California is moving the United States beyond

debate and doubt to action.So I urge this body to push its members to action also.Ladies and gentlemen, in closing, let me just say this: Do not lose hope.I do not believe that doom

and gloom and disaster are the only outcomes.Humanity is smart, and nature is amazingly regenerative.I believe that we can renew the climate of this planet.I believe this 100 percent.So I

pledge to you, the members of the United Nations, that we in California will work with all our heart to this end for which we all long.Thank you very much.Thank you.

第三篇：施瓦辛格在清华大学的演讲范文

施瓦辛格在清华大学的演讲

Well, thank you very much, President.First of all, I want to thank President Gu for having me here, and I want to thank Mr.Qizhi for your kind introduction.Thank you very much.It is wonderful to be here at this university.What a special place.I just looked around a little bit here, it’s a gorgeous, gorgeous place.I want to congratulate you for going to this magnificent university here.Now, the last time I was here in China was five years ago, and then I was promoting my movies.They had a movie festival here, the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Festival.I remember they showed all my movies for a week—which was a rarity, may I remind you—and they also showed the movies on television.But we also were here to promote Special Olympics, which is an organization that helps people with mental disabilities, so I was here for both reasons.But this time I’m here as the governor of the great state of California.I’m here representing the people of California, and we’re here on a trade mission to see how we can do more business with China and to help each other, because both California is a very fast growing state, and China is a very fast growing country, and there are a lot of things that we can do for one another.But I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to come here today and to talk with the young people;as a matter of fact, to the brightest young people of China.And this is why it is so great to be here at the Tsinghua University, and I’m honored that I was invited here.Now, I read a little bit about the history of Tsinghua, and I learned that actually this school originally prepared students to attend universities in America.Now, I also know that since the attack on our World Trade Centers it has become more and more difficult to go to the universities in America because you need to fill out all kinds of paperwork now and you have to get visas, and it’s very complicated, and you have to wait a much longer period of time to go over there.But let me tell you, things are improving already.I’ve heard that it’s easing up, the restrictions, and it’s easier to get a visa.My young Chinese friends, I want to tell you that in case no one from America has ever invited you, let me do this right now personally.I want to warmly invite all of you here to come to the United States, and especially to come to California, because that’s the happening place.California is the best place.Please come and visit us, we will welcome you.I invite you all to come there and to travel, to meet the American people, and to come there and study in our universities, and some day hopefully you will come and do business over there, or maybe you’ll want to move over there.Whatever your goal is, you’re always welcome.America, after all, let’s not forget, is the land of opportunity.And it’s not only the land of opportunity for Austrians like me, but for Chinese people as well.Remember that.I know that beginning with this century, China is also becoming a land of opportunity.It’s a fast growing place, and as the students of this great university and the citizens of a rising China, I think that you have a great future also here in this country.And today I want to talk to you a little bit about the dreams, about the dreams of your future, and dreams for this country.I want to talk to you a little bit about dreams, because it seems to me that I’m somewhat of an expert in dreams, because I had a lot of my dreams become a reality.So let me just briefly tell you my story, and tell you a little bit about how I started with my career.I think that this story kind of relates a little bit also to you, and also to China.I started way back as a weightlifter.I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being a bodybuilder.From the first moment when I gripped a barbell and held it around the bar and lifted the steel up over my head, I felt this exhilaration, and I knew then that this is something that I’m going to do;that I was in love with that, and this is going to be something that I’m going to do.I’m going to pursue the sport of weightlifting and bodybuilding.Now, I remember the first real workout that I had.Eight miles away from my home village in Austria there was a gymnasium, and I rode to that gymnasium with a bicycle.And there I trained for half an hour, because they said that after half an hour you should stop because otherwise your body will get really sore.But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothing had happened.So I said, “I’d better work out for another half hour.” So I lifted some more.My strength didn’t improve, I didn’t see the muscles pop out or anything like that, so I trained for another half an hour.And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, and all together I trained two and a half hours.Well, let me tell you something.After two and a half hours—even though they told me that I shouldn’t train that much or I would get really sore—I left the gymnasium, I rode my bicycle home.And after the first mile I got numb, and I couldn’t feel anymore the handle of the bicycle, and I fell off the bike and I fell into the ditch on the side of the road.So I got up again and I tried it again.Another few yards, I fell off the bicycle again.And I tried it three, four more times, and I just couldn’t ride my bicycle because my body was so numb and my legs felt like noodles.Well, let me tell you something.The next morning when I got up, my body was so sore that I couldn’t even lift my arms to comb my hair.I had to have my mother comb my hair, and you know how embarrassing that is.But you know something? I learned a very important lesson, that pain means progress.Pain is progress.Each time my muscles were sore from a workout I knew that they were growing and they were getting stronger.I think there is a real life lesson in that.After two or three years of discipline and determination and working out hard, I actually changed my body, and I changed my strength.And that told me something;that if I could change my body that much, and if I could change the strength of my body that much, then I could also change anything else.I could change my habits, I could change my intelligence, I could change my attitude, my mind, my future, my life.And this is exactly what I have done.I think that that lesson applies to people, and it also applies to countries.You can change, China can change, everyone in the world can change.My parents, of course, I have to tell you, didn’t understand my dreams at all.They were always wondering, they said, “What is he doing? When are you going to get a job, a real job? When are you going to make money?” And all of those questions I got.And they said, “I hope we didn’t raise a bum, someone that doesn’t make money and just wants to live in a gymnasium and think about their bodies.” Well, I endured all of this negative thinking, and the more negative the thinking got, and the more negative the questions got, the stronger and the more positive I became, the stronger I became inside.So of course some of your families maybe think the same way, and this is why I’m mentioning that.Some of your families maybe don’t believe in your dreams.But let me tell you something, my young friends.Keep your dreams.No matter what, keep your dreams.Don’t give up on them, even when you are temporarily defeated or denied.Keep your dreams.I remember the first time I went to the United States and I was competing in a competition, the World Championships in Bodybuilding.I lost.I came in second, and I was devastated.I was crushed.I felt like a loser, a major loser, let me tell you.I cried, as a matter of fact, because I felt like I disappointed my friends and I disappointed myself.But the next day I got my act together, I shifted gears, and I said, “I’m going to learn from that lesson.I’m going to stay here in America.I’m not going to go back to Europe.I’m going to stay in America and I’m going to train with the American champions, I’m going to train the American way.I’m going to eat the American food, I’m going to train with the American machines and the principles.And a year later, in America, I became the World Champion in Bodybuilding.So I think this is a very, very important lesson.And from then on, I continued.My career took off, and everything that I wanted to do I accomplished.First it was to become a champion in bodybuilding.Later on I became a movie star, to do all the great movies, the Conan movies and the Terminator movies and all this.Then I became the governor of the great state of California, of the sixth largest economy in the world.All of this happened because of my dreams, even though other people told me that those dreams were bogus and they were crazy, but I held onto my dreams.And people would always say, no matter what, even in bodybuilding they said I would never make it.And later on in the movies, in Hollywood they said I would not make it.They said, ”You will never make it.You have a German accent.No one in Hollywood has ever made it with a German accent.Yeah, maybe you can play some Nazi roles or something like that, but you cannot become a leading star with an accent.Plus your body, you’re overdeveloped, you have all these muscles.They did Hercules movies 20 years ago, that’s outdated.Now it’s Woody Allen.Woody Allen is in, his body is in.“ And those were the messages.”And Al Pacino, the skinny guy, he is in.But not your body, it’s too big.And your name, Schwarzenegger, it will never fit on a movie poster.Forget it.Forget it, you will never make it.Go back to bodybuilding.“ Well, the rest is history.After Terminator 3, I became the highest paid movie star in Hollywood.And let me tell you something, it continued on.Even when I ran for governor people said, ”Arnold, you will never make it.You will never become governor of California.What do you know about government?“ Well, the fact is, I knew exactly as much about government as the rest of the people knew in California, which is that government is out of touch, and it’s out of sync with the people, and it needed a shakeup.So I didn’t listen to all those people that said I would never make it.I continued campaigning, I listened to my dreams, and the rest also is history.I became governor.So always it just carried me on, those dreams.So bodybuilding gave me the confidence, movies gave me the money, and pubic service and being a governor gave me a purpose larger than myself.And that is the brief story of my dreams and a brief story of my early life, and how my dreams made me successful.A person, of course, should not be stingy with their dreams.So I, of course, don’t just think and dream about myself, but I also have dreams for you, and dreams for China.So let me just talk a little bit about that.China’s economy has become an engine of human progress, lifting millions of people out of poverty.This is a moral and economic good for China and for the rest of the world.I often read that China’s economy is likely to become the largest in the world over the next 50 years, and I think this is terrific.This does not mean, of course, that America will get poorer;it just means that China will get richer, and the United States will benefit from China’s progress as much as the U.S.benefited from the rise of Western Europe after World War II.Some in my country fear that China’s research and development will overtake America’s, but I believe that America and the world will benefit from China’s scientific and technological advances.I think we will benefit from that.If China makes advances in stem cell research, the rest of the world will benefit from that.If China discovers an energy breakthrough, this is good for the rest of the world, such as the benefit of a free market.Some fear that China will buy up American companies, but that fear also existed in the ‘80s, when America feared that Japan was going to buy up American companies.So what? It was just good, and to the benefit of America.We should welcome China’s investment in American companies, just as we welcome the billions of dollars that China has invested in U.S.treasury bonds.This shows that China has faith in America, and American investment in China shows that we have faith in you.So I believe that China and U.S.economic relations will become even closer in the years ahead.Certainly I realize that we do not agree on everything, but who does? Certainly I realize that China has major hurdles to overcome, but it is not for me to say how China should overcome those hurdles and achieve its dreams.But I can tell you, however, what has given America such energy and strength over the last 200 years, and perhaps there are some insights in this for China.America is a nation that believes in the power of the individual, and what the individual can accomplish, no matter the color, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background of the individual.Recently, as you probably have read, Rosa Parks, a former seamstress married to a barber, married to a hairdresser, died, and she lay in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S.Capitol in Washington.People from around America came to say farewell to her and to thank her for changing our history and for changing our society.Now, what did this 92 year-old black woman do that deserved such great honor? What did she do? Well, in 1955, the days of racial segregation, she had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.She had refused.Her simple refusal to move to the back of the bus put into motion events that led to my country’s great civil rights movement.The small protest of a woman that maybe weighed less than 100 lbs.brought down a racist system.As you can see, the individual can make a difference.Let me tell you about another individual, Ken Behring, a millionaire California businessman who found his passion in giving wheelchairs to poor and physically disabled people all around the globe, including China.He says that he has met people who have spent years in rooms with no window, just lying there and staring up at the ceiling, never seeing the outside world unless someone was willing to pick up that person and take them outside to show them the world.He says that it’s no wonder so many of those physically disabled people dream about being a bird.Mr.Behring says that most of us think that a wheelchair would be a confinement, but to millions of people it is not a confinement, it is freedom, freedom to move and to go to school, freedom to vote, freedom to get a job, and freedom for hope for the future.He has given freedom and wheelchairs to 400,000 people around the world.The individual can make a difference.My mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver—I always like to mention her, because it gets me on the good side of her—she, for instance, started an organization called Special Olympics.She stared Special Olympics which is for people with mental disabilities.And of course when she started that organization she was told by the experts, ”Don’t do it.You cannot take people with mental disabilities out of mental institutions and have them participate in sports events.They will drown in the swimming pools.They will kill each other out there, they will hurt each other.Don’t do it.“ But Eunice Kennedy Shriver had a dream and a passion, and today millions of people compete in Special Olympics around the world, including right here in China.This is why I was here five years ago.Five years ago you had 50,000 participants in the Special Olympics.Today, five years later, you have 500,000 participants in Special Olympics.500,000 people are getting a chance to participate in sports programs, getting a chance to have health care, have a chance to be treated equally, with respect and with tolerance.So Eunice Kennedy Shriver exemplifies that the individual can make a difference.And I think what I’m trying to say to you is that each and every one of you can make a difference.So as you study and as you become smarter, and as you become richer, think about that, that there are millions of people that need your help.Now, you maybe ask yourself the question, what can I do? Well, let me tell you.Even though you maybe have no money or anything, you can go out and help a child that has not yet learned yet how to read.You maybe can go out and help a person that is physically handicapped, to lift them up and to take them outside so they can see the world.There are so many different things that you can do.You maybe can take a person that is mentally disabled, to take them to a soccer game.There are all kinds of things that the individual can do to reach out and to help.Imagine what could be accomplished if the dreams of China’s 1.3 billion individuals could be unleashed.Imagine what could happen.Each of you here has the power of the individual within you, you have the power of your dreams within you, and these are tremendous powers.You’re young, you’re educated, and you are the very best China has to offer.My young Chinese friends, I believe in your dreams.I believe that you can achieve them, and I believe you can make a difference, a big difference.All you have to do is just make the commitment.All you have to do is create the action and commit, and say, ”Let’s do it." Go out and do it.I’m asking you.Do it for yourself, do it for China, and do it for the good of the world.Thank you very much for listening.Thank you.

第四篇：施瓦辛格在共和党全国代表大会的演讲

施瓦辛格在共和党全国代表大会的演讲

Arnold Schwarzenegger: 2004 Republican National Convention Address 施瓦辛格在共和党全国代表大会的演讲

August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

8月31日，美国共和党明星州长施瓦辛格在纽约麦迪逊花园广场登上了共和党全国代表大会的演讲台，为共和党“美化布什”运动出力。他回忆了自己在惨遭原苏联蹂躏的奥地利度过的童年，赞扬了布什的反恐战争。施瓦辛格在奥地利出生，在银幕上以扮演“硬汉”出名，“终结者”形象尤其深入人心。他目前是加利福尼亚州州长。在通篇演讲中，施瓦辛格没有提到民主党总统候选人克里的名字，他与克里向来关系不错。演讲夹杂着一些笑话，而没有发动党派性质的攻击。

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Thank you very much.Thank you.What a greeting.What a greeting.Wow!This--This is like winning an Oscar.As if I would know!Speaking of acting, one of my movies was called “True Lies.” And that's what the Democrats should have called their convention.You know, on the way up here to the podium, a gentlemen came up to me and said, “Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor.” What a cheap shot.Cannot believe it.Anyway, my fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me.To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of the State of California and then stand here--and stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the President of the United States.That is an immigrant's dream!It's the American dream.You know, I was born in Europe and I've traveled all over the world, and I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.As long as I live--As long as I live, I will never forget the day 21 years ago when I raised my right hand and I took the oath of citizenship.You know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with the American flag around my shoulder all day long.Tonight, I want to talk to you about why I'm even more proud to be an American--why I am proud to be a Republican, and why I believe that this country is in good hands.When I was a boy, the Soviets occupied part of Austria.I saw their tanks in the streets.I saw communism with my own eyes.I remember the fear we had when we had to cross into the Soviet sector.Growing up, we were told, “Don't look the soldiers in the eye.Just look straight ahead.” It was common belief that the Soviet soldiers could take a man out of his own car and ship him back to the Soviet Union as slave labor.Now my family didn't have a car--but one day we were in my uncle's car.It was near dark as we came to the Soviet checkpoint.I was a little boy.I was not an action hero back then.But I remember--I remember how scared I was that the soldiers would pull my father or my uncle out of the car and I would never see them again.My family and so many others lived in fear of the Soviet boot.Today, the world no longer fears the Soviet Union and it is because of the United States of America!As a kid--As a kid I saw socialist--the socialist country that Austria became after the Soviets left.Now don't misunderstand me: I love Austria and I love the Austrian people.But I always knew that America was the place for me.In school, when the teacher would talk about America, I would daydream about coming here.I would daydream about living here.I would sit there and watch for hours American movies, transfixed by my heroes, like John Wayne.Everything about America--Everything about America seemed so big to me, so open, so possible.I finally arrived here in 1968.What a special day it was.I remember I arrived here with empty pockets, but full of dreams, full of determination, full of desire.The presidential campaign was in full swing.I remember watching the Nixon and Humphrey presidential race on TV.A friend of mine who spoke German and English translated for me.I heard Humphrey saying things that sounded like socialism, which I had just left.But then I heard Nixon speak.Then I heard Nixon speak.He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military.Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air.I said to my friend, I said, “What party is he?” My friend said, “He's a Republican.” I said, “Then I am a Republican.” And I have been a Republican ever since!And trust me--And trust me in my wife's family, that's no small achievement.But I am proud to be with the Party of Abraham Lincoln, the Party of Teddy Roosevelt, the Party of Ronald Reagan and the Party of George W.Bush!

To my fellow immigrants listening tonight, I want you to know how welcome you are in this party.We Republicans admire your ambition.We encourage your dreams.We believe in you[r] future.And one thing I learned about America is that if you work hard and if you play by the rules, this country is truly open to you.You can achieve anything.Everything I have--my career, my success, my family--I owe to America.In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born.It doesn't make any difference who your parents were.It doesn't make any difference if you're like me and you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.America gave me opportunities and my immigrant dreams came true.I want other people to get the same chances I did, the same opportunities.And I believe they can.That's why I believe in this country.That's why I believe in this Party, and that's why I believe in this President.Now, many of you out there tonight are “Republican” like me--in your hearts and in your belief.Maybe you're from Guatemala.Maybe you're from the Philippines.Maybe you're from Europe or the Ivory Coast.Maybe you live in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or New Mexico.And maybe--And maybe, just maybe, you don't agree with this Party on every single issue.I say to you tonight that I believe that's not only okay, but that's what's great about this country.Here--Here we can respectfully disagree and still be patriotic, still be American, and still be good Republicans.My fellow immigrants, my fellow Americans, how do you know if you are a Republican? Well, I['ll] tell you how.If you believe that government should be accountable to the people, not the people to the government, then you are a Republican.If you believe that a person should be treated as an individual, not as a member of an interest group, then you are a Republican.If you believe that your family knows how to spend your money better than the government does, then you are a Republican.If you believe that our educational system should be held accountable for the progress of our children, then you are a Republican.If you believe--If you believe that this country, not the United Nations, is best hope for democracy, then you are a Republican.And ladies and gentlemen--And ladies and gentlemen, if you believe that we must be fierce and relentless and terminate terrorism, then you are a Republican!Now there's another way you can tell you're [a] Republican.You have faith in free enterprise, faith in the resourcefulness of the American people, and faith in the U.S.economy.And to those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: “Don't be economic girlie men!” The U.S.--The U.S.economy remains the envy of the world.We have the highest economic growth of any of the world's major industrialized nations.Don't you remember the pessimism of 20 years ago when the critics said that Japan and Germany are overtaking the U.S.? Ridiculous!Now they say that India and 中国 are overtaking us.Now don't you believe it.We may hit a few bumps--but America always moves ahead.That's what Americans do.We move prosperity ahead--We move prosperity ahead.We move freedom ahead.And we move people ahead.And under President Bush and Vice President Cheney, America's economy is moving ahead in spite of the recession they inherited and in spite of the attack on our homeland.Now--Now the other Party says that we are two Americas.Don't you believe that either.I have visited our troops in Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia, Germany and all over the world.I've visited our troops in California, where they train before they go overseas.I have visited our military hospitals.And I tell you this: that our men and women in uniform do not believe there are two Americas.They believe there's one America and they are fighting for it!We are one America--We are one America and President Bush is defending it with all his heart and soul.That's what I admire most about the President: He is a man of perseverance.He's a man of inner strength.He's a leader who doesn't flinch, who doesn't waiver, and does not back down.My fellow Americans--My fellow Americans, make no mistake about it: Terrorism is more insidious than communism, because it yearns to destroy not just the individual, but the entire international order.The President did not go into Iraq because the polls told him it was popular.As a matter of fact, the polls said just the opposite.But leadership isn't about polls.It's about ma--It's about making decisions you think are right and then standing behind those decisions.That's why America is safer with George W.Bush as President.He knows--He knows you don't reason with terrorists.You defeat them.He knows you can't reason with people blinded by hate.You see, they hate the power of the individual.They hate the progress of women.They hate the religious freedom of others.And they hate the liberating breeze of democracy.But ladies and gentlemen, their hate is no match for America's decency.We are--We are the America that sends out the Peace Corps volunteers to teach our village children.We are the America that sends out the missionaries and doctors to raise up the poor and the sick.We are the America that gives more than any other country to fight AIDS in Africa and the developing world.And we are--And we are the America that fights not for imperialism but for human rights and democracy.You know, when the Germans brought down the Berlin Wall, America's determination helped wield the sledgehammers.And when the lone, young Chinese man stood in front of those tanks in Tiananmen Square, America stood with him.And when Nelson Mandela smiled in election victory after all those years in prison, America celebrated, too.We are still the lamp lighting the world, especially [for] those who struggle.No matter in what labor camp they slave, no matter in what injustice they're trapped, they hear our call;they see our light;and they feel the pull of our freedom.They come here as I did because they believe.They believe in us.They come because their hearts say to them, as mine did, “If only I can get to America.” You know, someone once wrote: “There are those who say that freedom is nothing but a dream.” They are right.It's the American dream.No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.And as Governor--as Governor of the great state of California, I see the best in Americans every day--I see the best in Americans everyday--our police, our firefighters, our nurses, doctors, and teachers, our parents.And what about the extraordinary men and women who have volunteered to fight for the United States of America.I have such great respect for them and their heroic families.Let me tell you about a sacrifice and the commitment that I have seen firsthand.In one of the military hospitals I visited, I met a young guy who was in bad shape.He'd lost a leg;he had a hole through his stomach, and his shoulder had been shot through, and the list goes on and on and on.I could tell that there was no way he could ever return to combat.But when I asked him, “When do you think you'll get out of the hospital?” He said to me, “Sir, in three weeks.” And you know what he said to me then? He said he was going to get a new leg, and then he was going to get some therapy, and then he was going to go back to Iraq and fight alongside his buddies.And you know what he said to me then? You know what he said to me then? He said, “Arnold, I'll be back!” Well, ladies and gentlemen--ladies and gentlemen, America is back.Back from the attack on our homeland, back from the attack on our economy, and back from the attack on our way of life.We are back because of the perseverance, character, and leadership of the 43rd President of the United States, George W.Bush!My fellow Americans, I want you to know that I believe with all my heart that America remains “the great idea” that inspires the world.It is a privilege to be born here.It is an honor to become a citizen here.It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here and to live here.Our President, George W.Bush, has worked hard to protect and preserve the American dream for all of us.And that's why I say, send him back to Washington for four more years!Four more years!Four more years!Four more years!Four more years!For more years!Thank you, America.Thank you and God bless you all.Thank you.Thank you.

第五篇：施瓦辛格在清华大学的演讲中英文对照

为梦想执着

——美国加州前州长阿诺德·施瓦辛格在清华大学的演讲 It is wonderful to be here at this university.What a special place.I just looked around a little bit here, it’s a gorgeous, gorgeous place.I want to congratulate you for going to this magnificent university here.Now, the last time I was here in China was five years ago, and then I was promoting my movies.They had a movie festival here, the Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie Festival.I remember they showed all my movies for a week—which was a rarity, may I remind you—and they also showed the movies on television.But we also were here to promote Special Olympics, which is an organization that helps people with mental disabilities, so I was here for both reasons.But this time I’m here as the governor of the great state of California.I’m here representing the people of California, and we’re here on a trade mission to see how we can do more business with China and to help each other, because both California is a very fast growing state, and China is a very fast growing country, and there are a lot of things that we can do for one another.But I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to come here today and to talk with the young people;as a matter of fact, to the brightest young people of China.And this is why it is so great to be here at the Tsinghua University, and I’m honored that I was invited here.Now, I read a little bit about the history of Tsinghua, and I learned that actually this school originally prepared students to attend universities in America.Now, I also know that since the attack on our World Trade Centers it has become more and more difficult to go to the universities in America because you need to fill out all kinds of paperwork now and you have to get visas, and it’s very complicated, and you have to wait a much longer period of time to go over there.But let me tell you, things are improving already.I’ve heard that it’s easing up, the restrictions, and it’s easier to get a visa.My young Chinese friends, I want to tell you that in case no one from America has ever invited you, let me do this right now personally.I want to warmly invite all of you here to come to the United States, and especially to come to California, because that’s the happening place.California is the best place.Please come and visit us, we will welcome you.I invite you all to come there and to travel, to meet the American people, and to come there and study in our universities, and some day hopefully you will come and do business over there, or maybe you’ll want to move over there.Whatever your goal is, you’re always welcome.America, after all, let’s not forget, is the land of opportunity.And it’s not only the land of opportunity for Austrians like me, but for Chinese people as well.Remember that.I know that beginning with this century, China is also becoming a land of opportunity.It’s a fast growing place, and as the students of this great university and the citizens of a rising China, I think that you have a great future also here in this country.And today I want to talk to you a little bit about the dreams, about the dreams of your future, and dreams for this country.I want to talk to you a little bit about dreams, because it seems to me that I’m somewhat of an expert in dreams, because I had a lot of my dreams become a reality.So let me just briefly tell you my story, and tell you a little bit about how I started with my career.I think that this story kind of relates a little bit also to you, and also to China.I started way back as a weightlifter.I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being a bodybuilder.From the first moment when I gripped a barbell and held it around the bar and lifted the steel up over my head, I felt this exhilaration, and I knew then that this is something that I’m going to do;that I was in love with that, and this is going to be something that I’m going to do.I’m going to pursue the sport of weightlifting and bodybuilding.Now, I remember the first real workout that I had.Eight miles away from my home village in Austria there was a gymnasium, and I rode to that gymnasium with a bicycle.And there I trained for half an hour, because they said that after half an hour you should stop because otherwise your body will get really sore.But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothing had happened.So I said, “I’d better work out for another half hour.” So I lifted some more.My strength didn’t improve, I didn’t see the muscles pop out or anything like that, so I trained for another half an hour.And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, and all together I trained two and a half hours.Well, let me tell you something.After two and a half hours—even though they told me that I shouldn’t train that much or I would get really sore—I left the gymnasium, I rode my bicycle home.And after the first mile I got numb, and I couldn’t feel anymore the handle of the bicycle, and I fell off the bike and I fell into the ditch on the side of the road.So I got up again and I tried it again.Another few yards, I fell off the bicycle again.And I tried it three, four more times, and I just couldn’t ride my bicycle because my body was so numb and my legs felt like noodles.Well, let me tell you something.The next morning when I got up, my body was so sore that I couldn’t even lift my arms to comb my hair.I had to have my mother comb my hair, and you know how embarrassing that is.But you know something? I learned a very important lesson, that pain means progress.Pain is progress.Each time my muscles were sore from a workout I knew that they were growing and they were getting stronger.I think there is a real life lesson in that.After two or three years of discipline and determination and working out hard, I actually changed my body, and I changed my strength.And that told me something;that if I could change my body that much, and if I could change the strength of my body that much, then I could also change anything else.I could change my habits, I could change my intelligence, I could change my attitude, my mind, my future, my life.And this is exactly what I have done.I think that that lesson applies to people, and it also applies to countries.You can change, China can change, everyone in the world can change.My parents, of course, I have to tell you, didn’t understand my dreams at all.They were always wondering, they said, “What is he doing? When are you going to get a job, a real job? When are you going to make money?” And all of those questions I got.And they said, “I hope we didn’t raise a bum, someone that doesn’t make money and just wants to live in a gymnasium and think about their bodies.” Well, I endured all of this negative thinking, and the more negative the thinking got, and the more negative the questions got, the stronger and the more positive I became, the stronger I became inside.So of course some of your families maybe think the same way, and this is why I’m mentioning that.Some of your families maybe don’t believe in your dreams.But let me tell you something, my young friends.Keep your dreams.No matter what, keep your dreams.Don’t give up on them, even when you are temporarily defeated or denied.Keep your dreams.I remember the first time I went to the United States and I was competing in a competition, the World Championships in Bodybuilding.I lost.I came in second, and I was devastated.I was crushed.I felt like a loser, a major loser, let me tell you.I cried, as a matter of fact, because I felt like I disappointed my friends and I disappointed myself.But the next day I got my act together, I shifted gears, and I said, “I’m going to learn from that lesson.I’m going to stay here in America.I’m not going to go back to Europe.I’m going to stay in America and I’m going to train with the American champions, I’m going to train the American way.I’m going to eat the American food, I’m going to train with the American machines and the principles.And a year later, in America, I became the World Champion in Bodybuilding.So I think this is a very, very important lesson.And from then on, I continued.My career took off, and everything that I wanted to do I accomplished.First it was to become a champion in bodybuilding.Later on I became a movie star, to do all the great movies, the Conan movies and the Terminator movies and all this.Then I became the governor of the great state of California, of the sixth largest economy in the world.All of this happened because of my dreams, even though other people told me that those dreams were bogus and they were crazy, but I held onto my dreams.And people would always say, no matter what, even in bodybuilding they said I would never make it.And later on in the movies, in Hollywood they said I would not make it.They said, ”You will never make it.You have a German accent.No one in Hollywood has ever made it with a German accent.Yeah, maybe you can play some Nazi roles or something like that, but you cannot become a leading star with an accent.Plus your body, you’re overdeveloped, you have all these muscles.They did Hercules movies 20 years ago, that’s outdated.Now it’s Woody Allen.Woody Allen is in, his body is in.“ And those were the messages.”And Al Pacino, the skinny guy, he is in.But not your body, it’s too big.And your name, Schwarzenegger, it will never fit on a movie poster.Forget it.Forget it, you will never make it.Go back to bodybuilding.“

Well, the rest is history.After Terminator 3, I became the highest paid movie star in Hollywood.And let me tell you something, it continued on.Even when I ran for governor people said, ”Arnold, you will never make it.You will never become governor of California.What do you know about government?“ Well, the fact is, I knew exactly as much about government as the rest of the people knew in California, which is that government is out of touch, and it’s out of sync with the people, and it needed a shakeup.So I didn’t listen to all those people that said I would never make it.I continued campaigning, I listened to my dreams, and the rest also is history.I became governor.So always it just carried me on, those dreams.So bodybuilding gave me the confidence, movies gave me the money, and pubic service and being a governor gave me a purpose larger than myself.And that is the brief story of my dreams and a brief story of my early life, and how my dreams made me successful.A person, of course, should not be stingy with their dreams.So I, of course, don’t just think and dream about myself, but I also have dreams for you, and dreams for China.So let me just talk a little bit about that.China’s economy has become an engine of human progress, lifting millions of people out of poverty.This is a moral and economic good for China and for the rest of the world.I often read that China’s economy is likely to become the largest in the world over the next 50 years, and I think this is terrific.This does not mean, of course, that America will get poorer;it just means that China will get richer, and the United States will benefit from China’s progress as much as the U.S.benefited from the rise of Western Europe after World War II.Some in my country fear that China’s research and development will overtake America’s, but I believe that America and the world will benefit from China’s scientific and technological advances.I think we will benefit from that.If China makes advances in stem cell research, the rest of the world will benefit from that.If China discovers an energy breakthrough, this is good for the rest of the world, such as the benefit of a free market.Some fear that China will buy up American companies, but that fear also existed in the ‘80s, when America feared that Japan was going to buy up American companies.So what? It was just good, and to the benefit of America.We should welcome China’s investment in American companies, just as we welcome the billions of dollars that China has invested in U.S.treasury bonds.This shows that China has faith in America, and American investment in China shows that we have faith in you.So I believe that China and U.S.economic relations will become even closer in the years ahead.Certainly I realize that we do not agree on everything, but who does? Certainly I realize that China has major hurdles to overcome, but it is not for me to say how China should overcome those hurdles and achieve its dreams.But I can tell you, however, what has given America such energy and strength over the last 200 years, and perhaps there are some insights in this for China.America is a nation that believes in the power of the individual, and what the individual can accomplish, no matter the color, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background of the individual.Recently, as you probably have read, Rosa Parks, a former seamstress married to a barber, married to a hairdresser, died, and she lay in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S.Capitol in Washington.People from around America came to say farewell to her and to thank her for changing our history and for changing our society.Now, what did this 92 year-old black woman do that deserved such great honor? What did she do? Well, in 1955, the days of racial segregation, she had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.She had refused.Her simple refusal to move to the back of the bus put into motion events that led to my country’s great civil rights movement.The small protest of a woman that maybe weighed less than 100 lbs.brought down a racist system.As you can see, the individual can make a difference.Let me tell you about another individual, Ken Behring, a millionaire California businessman who found his passion in giving wheelchairs to poor and physically disabled people all around the globe, including China.He says that he has met people who have spent years in rooms with no window, just lying there and staring up at the ceiling, never seeing the outside world unless someone was willing to pick up that person and take them outside to show them the world.He says that it’s no wonder so many of those physically disabled people dream about being a bird.Mr.Behring says that most of us think that a wheelchair would be a confinement, but to millions of people it is not a confinement, it is freedom, freedom to move and to go to school, freedom to vote, freedom to get a job, and freedom for hope for the future.He has given freedom and wheelchairs to 400,000 people around the world.The individual can make a difference.My mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver—I always like to mention her, because it gets me on the good side of her—she, for instance, started an organization called Special Olympics.She stared Special Olympics which is for people with mental disabilities.And of course when she started that organization she was told by the experts, ”Don’t do it.You cannot take people with mental disabilities out of mental institutions and have them participate in sports events.They will drown in the swimming pools.They will kill each other out there, they will hurt each other.Don’t do it.“ But Eunice Kennedy Shriver had a dream and a passion, and today millions of people compete in Special Olympics around the world, including right here in China.This is why I was here five years ago.Five years ago you had 50,000 participants in the Special Olympics.Today, five years later, you have 500,000 participants in Special Olympics.500,000 people are getting a chance to participate in sports programs, getting a chance to have health care, have a chance to be treated equally, with respect and with tolerance.So Eunice Kennedy Shriver exemplifies that the individual can make a difference.And I think what I’m trying to say to you is that each and every one of you can make a difference.So as you study and as you become smarter, and as you become richer, think about that, that there are millions of people that need your help.Now, you maybe ask yourself the question, what can I do? Well, let me tell you.Even though you maybe have no money or anything, you can go out and help a child that has not yet learned yet how to read.You maybe can go out and help a person that is physically handicapped, to lift them up and to take them outside so they can see the world.There are so many different things that you can do.You maybe can take a person that is mentally disabled, to take them to a soccer game.There are all kinds of things that the individual can do to reach out and to help.Imagine what could be accomplished if the dreams of China’s 1.3 billion individuals could be unleashed.Imagine what could happen.Each of you here has the power of the individual within you, you have the power of your dreams within you, and these are tremendous powers.You’re young, you’re educated, and you are the very best China has to offer.My young Chinese friends, I believe in your dreams.I believe that you can achieve them, and I believe you can make a difference, a big difference.All you have to do is just make the commitment.All you have to do is create the action and commit, and say, ”Let’s do it." Go out and do it.I’m asking you.Do it for yourself, do it for China, and do it for the good of the world.Thank you very much for listening.Thank you.很高兴来到这所大学。这真是一个特别的地方。我刚才到处看了一下，这是一个很棒、很棒的地方。祝贺你们能到这么好的大学学习。

上一次我来中国是五年前，当时是来宣传我的电影。他们在这里举办了一个电影节，名叫“阿诺德·施瓦辛格电影节”。我记得他们在一周时间内放映了我所有的电影——要知道，这是很难得的——他们还通过电视台播放了这些影片。但是我们当时来这里还有另一项任务，就是宣传特殊奥林匹克运动会，它专为帮助智障人士而设立。所以上一次我来是有两个目的。

但是这一次我的身份是加利福尼亚州州长，代表加利福尼亚人民。我们来了一个贸易代表团，看看怎样才能扩大与贵国的商业合作，并且相互帮助，因为加利福尼亚是一个飞速发展的州，中国是一个飞速发展的国家，我们在很多方面都能相互合作。

但是，我不想错过今天来这里与年轻人交谈的机会。其实，你们是中国最优秀的青年。所以能来到清华大学是我的荣幸，我很荣幸能受到邀请。

我阅读了一些关于清华历史的资料，了解到其实这所学校最初是为了培养学生去美国的大学深造而设立。我还知道，自从“9·11”事件以来，去美国大学留学的难度越来越高，因为现在你们需要填写一大堆资料，要得到签证，这非常复杂，你们必须等待比以前长得多的时间才能成行。但是听我说，情况已经有所好转。我听说限制已经有所缓和，得到签证的难度降低了。我年轻的中国朋友，我想告诉你们，即便你们未曾受到任何美国人的邀请，现在我就以私人身份邀请你们。我想热情邀请你们所有人前去美国，特别是去加利福尼亚，因为那是时尚之都。加利福尼亚是最好的地方。

请前去访问，我们会欢迎你们。我邀请你们所有人去旅游，去见见美国人民，去我们的大学深造，希望有一天你们会去那里做生意，或者可能是定居。不论你是什么目标，我们都永远欢迎。毕竟，我们不要忘记，美国是充满机遇的国度。不论是对于我这样的奥地利人，还是中国人，都是如此。记住这一点。

据我所知，本世纪以来，中国也在不断孕育着机会，日新月异。你们是这所伟大的学校的学生，也是崛起的中国的公民，我相信你们在中国也会拥有美好的未来。

今天，我想与你们聊聊梦想，对于你们未来的梦想，对于这个国家梦想。我想与你们聊聊梦想，因为我似乎是一个梦想专家，我实现了自己的许多梦想。所以让我向你们讲述我的故事，讲述我如何开始我的职业生涯。我认为这个故事与你们，也与中国有些许关联。

一开始我是个举重运动员。我一直喜欢举重和健美。当我第一次抓起杠铃，稳稳握住，并高举过头顶，我就一直享受这份愉悦，我知道这就是我要做的事情；我喜爱举重，这将是我要做的事情。我要从事举重和健美运动。

我记得自己的第一次真正的训练。我老家在澳大利亚，离我们村庄八英里远的地方有一座体育馆，我骑车过去。在那里训练了半个小时，因为他们说半小时后你要停下来休息，否则身体会酸痛。但是半小时后我看着自己的身体，什么事也没有。我说：“我还是再练半小时吧。”所以我举了更多。我的力量没有增强，我没有发现肌肉隆起，或者类似的事情。于是我又练了半小时，之后又是半小时，再之后又是半小时，共计两个半小时。

两个半小时之后，我离开了体育馆，骑车回家。虽然他们告诉我不应该练那么久，否则身体会酸痛。骑了一英里之后，我感觉身体发麻，再也握不住自行车把手，摔了下来掉进路边的沟里。爬起来后我试图再骑。骑了几码之后我又摔下了车。我又试了三四次，但就是没法骑车，因为我的身体已经麻木了，我的腿像面条一样打颤。

第二天早晨起床后，我浑身酸痛，甚至没法举起手臂梳头。我不得不让我妈妈帮我梳头，你们知道那有多么尴尬。但你们知道吗？我学到了非常重要的一课，那就是痛苦意味着进步。痛苦就是进步。每一次训练之后我的肌肉都酸痛不已，但我知道那是它们在生长，变得更加强壮。

我认为这是现实生活的宝贵经验。在坚持两三年艰苦训练之后，我的形体和力量都发生了改变。我从中学到了一些东西，那就是：既然我可以改变我的形体，既然我可以改变我身体的力量，那么我也可以改变其它任何事情。我可以改变我的习惯，我可以改变我的智力，我可以改变我的态度、我的思想、我的未来和我的人生。这正是我已经做过的事情。我觉得这个经验也适用于其他人，适用于各个国家。你们可以改变，中国可以改变，世界上每一个人都可以改变。

当然，我必须告诉你们，我的父母起初完全无法理解我的梦想。他们总是困惑，他们说：“你在干什么？你打算什么时候找一份工作，一份真正的工作？你打算什么时候挣钱？”我听到的都是这样的问题。他们还说：“我希望我们没有养一个乞丐，一个不会挣钱，只想住在体育馆里成天想着自己形体的人。”好吧，我忍受了所有这些消极的想法。这些想法和问题越消极，我就变得越积极，我的内心就变得越强大。

之所以说这些是因为我觉得你们中有一部分人的家人可能会有同样的想法。他们可能不相信你们的梦想。但是让我告诉你们，我年轻的朋友们，坚持你们的梦想。无论如何，坚持你们的梦想。不要放弃，即便遭遇打击和挫折。坚持你们的梦想。

我记得我第一次去美国，去参加世界健美锦标赛，我输了。我只得了第二名，我崩溃了。我感觉像是个失败者，彻头彻尾的失败者。而且，我还哭了，因为我觉得我辜负了我的朋友们，还有我自己。但是第二天，我就重整旗鼓，对自己说：“我要吸取这个教训。我要留在美国。我不回欧洲了。我要留在美国，和那些冠军一起训练，以美国的方式训练。我要吃美国的食物，使用美国的运动器械和原理。”一年以后，在美国，我成为了世界健美冠军。所以，我觉得这是很重要的一课。

从那时起，我一步一个脚印。我的职业生涯开始腾飞，所有我想做的事都如愿以偿。先是成为了世界健美冠军，后来变成了电影明星，出演的都是伟大的影片，《蛮王柯南》系列和《终结者》系列，还有其他的。之后，我成为了加利福尼亚州的州长。这一切的发生都是因为我的梦想，即使其他人告诉我那些梦想不切实际，太过疯狂，我依然坚持不懈。

不论我做什么，即便是健身，总有人会说我不可能成功。后来拍电影，在好莱坞他们也说我不会成功。他们说：“你不可能成功的。你有德国口音，在好莱坞从来没有带德国口音的人成功过。是的，你或许能演一些纳粹之类的角色，但是因为你有口音，你不可能成为一线巨星。还有你的身体，你的肌肉过于发达了。20年前他们拍过赫拉克勒斯的电影，但是现在过时了。现在是伍迪·艾伦的时代。伍迪·艾伦很红，他的身材很红。”都是一些这样的信息。“还有阿尔·帕西诺，瘦得皮包骨头，他也很红。但是你不行，太壮硕了。别想了，你不会成功的。回去健身吧。”

好了，其他的就不提了。《终结者3》上映后，我成了好莱坞片酬最高的影星。听我说，故事还没完。即使当我竞选州长时，人们也说：“阿诺德，你不会成功的。你不会成为加利福尼亚州州长的。你对政府了解多少呢？”好吧，事实是，我对于政府的了解和其他加州人民一样，那就是政府遥不可及，高高在上，这亟待改变。所以我没有在乎那些人的话。我继续竞选，我坚持自己的梦想，其他的也不提了。我成功当选。

那些梦想一直是我前行的动力。健美给了我信心，电影给了我金钱，为人民服务和州长的工作给了我比实现自我更大的目标。以上就是我的梦想，我的早年生活，还有我的梦想如何帮助我取得成功。

当然，人不应吝啬梦想。所以我不仅有自己的梦想，也有对你们，对中国的梦想。让我慢慢道来。中国的经济已经变成了人类进步的引擎，使数百万人摆脱了贫困。对于中国和全世界而言，这是道德和经济的双重成功。我经常读到新闻，说在接下来的五十年，中国可能会成为世界最大的经济体。我认为这很好。当然，这并不意味着美国会变得贫穷；只是意味着中国会变得富裕，美国也会从中国的发展中获益，一如二战后美国从西欧的崛起中获益。

我可以告诉你们，在过去的两百年里，美国的能量和力量源泉是什么，或许中国可以从中学到一些东西。美国信奉个人能力，以及个人所能取得的成就，不论其肤色、宗教、种族背景如何。

让我向你们介绍另一个人，肯·贝林，他是一个加州的商人，身价百万。他也找到了自己的热情所在，向全世界（包括中国）的贫困残疾人赠送轮椅。他说他遇见过一些人，多年来受困于没有窗子的房间，成天躺在床上盯着天花板，从来没有见过外面的世界，除非有人愿意背起他们，带他们出去。他说难怪这么多残疾人都梦想变成一只小鸟。贝林先生说我们很多人认为轮椅是一种禁锢，但是对于数百万残疾人而言，它不是禁锢，而是自由，行动和上学的自由，投票的自由，求职的自由，展望未来的自由。他已经为全世界40万人带去了自由和轮椅。这就是个人的力量。

我的岳母，尤妮斯·肯尼迪·施莱佛——我总是喜欢提到她，因为她的善良——例如，她创办了特殊奥林匹克运动会，专为智障人士设立。当然，设立之初专家们告诉她：“不行，你不能把智障人士带出精神病院去参加体育活动。他们会在游泳池里溺水，他们会自相残杀，互相伤害。不要这样做。”但是尤妮斯·肯尼迪·施莱佛有梦想，有激情。今天全世界有几百万人在特殊奥林匹克运动会上比拼，包括中国。这就是我五年前来这里的原因。五年前，一共有50万人参加了特殊奥林匹克运动会。50万人得到了一个参加体育比赛的机会，得到了医疗保健的机会，得到了被平等对待的机会，还有尊敬和宽容。这就是个人的力量。尤妮斯·肯尼迪·施莱佛是又一个例子。

我想告诉你们的是你们每一个人都具有这种力量。所以，当你们的学识不断丰富，当你们变得更聪明，更富有，请想一想，有数百万人需要你们的帮助。现在，你们可以问自己一个问题，我能做什么？让我告诉你们。即便你们可能没有钱，甚至一无所有，你们依然可以走出去，教一个孩子学会阅读。你们可以走出去帮助残疾人，抱起他们，走到户外，让他们看看外面的世界。你们可以做太多不同的事情。你们可以带智障人士去看一场足球赛。个人可以通过做各种各样的事，来伸出援手，帮助他人。

设想一下，如果全中国13亿人民都能放飞各自的梦想，将会取得多大的成就。设想一下美妙的前景。你们每一个人都有改变的力量，都有梦想的力量，这些力量是无穷的。你们朝气蓬勃，你们学识丰富，你们是中国培养的精英。我年轻的朋友们，我相信你们的梦想。我相信你们可以梦想成真，我相信你们可以做出改变，巨大的改变。你们要做的只是为之奉献，你们要做的就是把梦想付诸行动并全心投入，对自己说：“让我们放手去做。”

谢谢大家！