Obama演讲词收录

freehuang

They write the checks and you get stuck with the bill, they get the access while you get to write a letter,
they think they own this government, but we’re here today to take it back.
The time for that kind of politics is over. It’s through.
It’s time to turn the page — right here and right now.
Now, look... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Look. Look.
We have made some progress already.
I was proud to help lead the fight in Congress that led to the most sweeping ethics reforms since Watergate.
But Washington has a long way to go, and it won’t be easy.
That’s why we’ll have to set priorities.
We’ll have to make hard choices.
And although government will play a crucial role in bringing about the changes that we need,
more money and programs alone will not get us to where we need to go.
Each of us, in our own lives, will have to accept responsibility
— for instilling an ethic of achievement in our children,
for adapting to a more competitive economy,
for strengthening our communities, and sharing some measure of sacrifice.
So let us begin. Let us begin this hard work together.
Let us transform this nation.
Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age.
Let’s set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed.
Let’s recruit a new army of teachers, and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more accountability.

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Let’s make college more affordable, and let’s invest in scientific research,
and let’s lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America.
We can do that.
And as our economy changes,
let’s be the generation that ensures our nation’s workers are sharing in our prosperity.
Let’s protect the hard-earned benefits their companies have promised.
Let’s make it possible for hardworking Americans to save for retirement.
Let’s allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country’s middle-class again.
We can do that.
Let’s be the generation that ends poverty in America.
Every single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills,
and afford child care so their kids could have a safe place to go when they work.
We can do this.
And let’s be the generation that finally, after all these years, tackles our health care crisis.
We can control costs by focusing on prevention, by providing better treatment to the chronically ill,
and using technology to cut the bureaucracy.
Let’s be the generation that says right here, right now,
we will have universal health care in America by the end of the next president’s first term.
We can do that.

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Let’s be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil.
We can harness homegrown, alternative fuels like ethanol and spur the production of more fuel-efficient cars.
We can set up a system for capping greenhouse gases.
We can turn this crisis of global warming into a moment of opportunity for innovation,
and job creation, and an incentive for businesses that will serve as a model for the world.
Let’s be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here.
Most of all, let’s be the generation that never forgets what happened on that September day
and confront the terrorists with everything we’ve got.
Politics doesn’t have to divide us on this anymore; we can work together to keep our country safe.
I’ve worked with Republican Senator Dick Lugar to pass a law
that will secure and destroy some of the world’s deadliest weapons.
We can work together to track down terrorists with a stronger military,
we can tighten the net around their finances, and we can improve our intelligence capabilities
and finally get homeland security right.
But let’s also understand that ultimate victory against our enemies will only come by rebuilding our alliances
and exporting those ideals that bring hope and opportunity to millions of people around the globe.
We can do those things.
But all of this cannot come to pass until we bring an end to this war in Iraq.
Most of you know... Most of you know that I opposed this war from the start.
I thought it was a tragic mistake.
Today we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken, and the young lives that could have been.

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America, it is time to start bringing our troops home.
It’s time... It’s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else’s civil war.
That’s why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008.
Let the Iraqis know... Letting the Iraqis know that we will not be there forever is our last,
best hope to pressure the Sunni and Shia to come to the table and find peace.
And there is one other thing that it’s not too late to get right about this war
— that is the homecoming of the men and women — our veterans
— who have sacrificed the most.
Let us honor their courage by providing the care they need and rebuilding the military they love.
Let us be the generation that begins that work.
I know there are those who don’t believe we can do all these things.
I understand the skepticism.
After all, every four years, candidates from both parties make similar promises, and I expect this year will be no different.

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All of us running for president will travel around the country offering ten-point plans and making grand speeches;
all of us will trumpet those qualities we believe make us uniquely qualified to lead this country.
But too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept away,
all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests move in,
and people turn away, disappointed as before, left to struggle on their own.
That is why this campaign can’t only be about me.
It must be about us — it must be about what we can do together.
This campaign must be the occasion, the vehicle, of your hopes, and your dreams.
It will take your time, your energy, and your advice — to push us forward when we’re doing right,
and let us know when we’re not.
This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship,
restoring our sense of common purpose,
and realizing that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.
By ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail.
But the life of a tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible.
He tells us that there is power in words.
He tells us that there is power in conviction.

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That beneath all the differences of race and region, faith and station, we are one people.
He tells us that there is power in hope.
As Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say this:
“Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds,
and formed and fought to battle through.”
That is our purpose here today.
That is why I’m in this race.
Not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation.
I want to win that next battle — for justice and opportunity.
I want to win that next battle — for better schools, and better jobs, and better health care for all.
I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union, and building a better America.
And if you will join with me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see,
the future of endless possibility stretching out before us; if you sense,
as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fears,
and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations,
then I’m ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you — today.
Together we can finish the work that needs to be done,
and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth.
Thank you very much everybody — let’s get to work! I love you. Thank you!

freehuang

May God Bless You！

freehuang

2008年一月份的在Iowa获得初选胜利的演讲词，特别有激情，民众也是欢呼雀跃。

Thank you Iowa. You know, they said... they said... they said this day would never come.
They said our sights were set too high.
They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose.
But on this January night, at this defining moment in history,
you have done what the cynics said we couldn’t do.
You have done what the state of New Hampshire can do in five days.
You have done what America can do in this new year, 2008.
In lines that stretched around schools and churches, in small towns and in big cities,
you came together as Democrats, Republicans and independents,
to stand up and say that we are one nation.
We are one people. And our time for change has come.
You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and pettiness and anger that’s consumed Washington;
to end the political strategy that’s been all about division, and instead make it about addition;
to build a coalition for change that stretches through red states and blue states.
Because that’s how we’ll win in November,
and that’s how we’ll finally meet the challenges that we face as a nation.
We are choosing hope over fear.

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We’re choosing unity over division, and sending a powerful message that change is coming to America.
You said the time has come to tell the lobbyists who think their money
and their influence speak louder than our voices that they don’t own this government — we do.
And we are here to take it back.
The time has come for a president who will be honest about the choices and the challenges we face,
who will listen to you and learn from you, even when we disagree,
who won’t just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know.
And in New Hampshire, if you give me the same chance that Iowa did tonight,
I will be that president for America.
I’ll be a president who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single American,
the same way I expanded health care in Illinois by... by bringing Democrats and Republicans together to get the job done.
I’ll be a president who ends the tax breaks for companies
that ship our jobs overseas and put a middle-class tax cut into the pockets of working Americans who deserve it.
I’ll be a president who harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists
and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all.
And I’ll be a president who ends this war in Iraq and finally brings our troops home,
who restores our moral standing, who understands that 9/11 is not a way to scare up votes
but a challenge that should unite America and the world against the common threats of the 21st century,
common threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons, climate change and poverty, genocide and disease.
Tonight, we are one step closer to that vision of America because of what you did here in Iowa.
And so I’d especially like to thank the organizers and the precinct captains,
the volunteers and the staff who made this all possible.
And while I’m at it on thank-yous, I think it makes sense for me to thank the love of my life,
the rock of the Obama family, the closer on the campaign trail.
Give it up for Michelle Obama.

freehuang

I know you didn’t do this for me.
You did this... You did this because you believed so deeply in the most American of ideas that in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
I know this.
I know this because while I may be standing here tonight,
I’ll never forget that my journey began on the streets of Chicago doing what
so many of you have done for this campaign and all the campaigns here in Iowa,
organizing and working and fighting to make people’s lives just a little bit better.
I know how hard it is. It comes with little sleep, little pay and a lot of sacrifice.
There are days of disappointment. But sometimes, just sometimes, there are nights like this;
a night... a night that, years from now, when we’ve made the changes we believe in,
when more families can afford to see a doctor, when our children
— when Malia and Sasha and your children inherit a planet that’s a little cleaner and safer,
when the world sees America differently, and America sees itself as a nation less divided and more united,
you’ll be able to look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began.
This was the moment when the improbable beat what Washington always said was inevitable.
This was the moment when we tore down barriers that have divided us for too long;
when we rallied people of all parties and ages to a common cause;
when we finally gave Americans who have never participated in politics a reason to stand up and to do so.
This was the moment when we finally beat back the politics of fear and doubts and cynicism,
the politics where we tear each other down instead of lifting this country up.
This was the moment.