Obama演讲词收录

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May God Bless Us!

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Years from now, you’ll look back and you’ll say that this was the moment,
this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope.
For many months, we’ve been teased, even derided for talking about hope.
But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism.
It’s not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.
It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight.
Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary,
that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
Hope is what I saw in the eyes of the young woman in Cedar Rapids who works the night shift
after a full day of college and still can’t afford health care for a sister who’s ill.
A young woman who still believes that this country will give her the chance to live out her dreams.
Hope is what I heard in the voice of the New Hampshire woman
who told me that she hasn’t been able to breathe since her nephew left for Iraq.
Who still goes to bed each night praying for his safe return.
Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire.
What led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation.
What led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters
and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom’s cause.
Hope... Hope is what led me here today.

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With a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas and a story that could only happen in the United States of America.
Hope is the bedrock of this nation.
The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us,
by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is,
who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
That is what we started here in Iowa and that is the message we can now carry to New Hampshire and beyond.
The same message we had when we were up and when we were down;
the one that can change this country, brick by brick, block by block,
calloused hand by calloused hand — that together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
Because we are not a collection of red states and blue states.
We are the United States of America. And in this moment,
in this election, we are ready to believe again.
Thank you, Iowa.

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在New Hampshire的初选中Obama惜败给希拉里，可是他仍是高兴的发表了这一篇著名演讲，真是达到了不以物喜，不以己悲的境界了，难怪能够最终赢得大选了。不抱希望就是最大的希望！而演讲中的三个平凡的字Yes We Can让人读来无不热血沸腾。

Thank you, New Hampshire.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you guys. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, New Hampshire.
I love you back. Thank you. Thank you.
Well, thank you so much.
I am still fired up and ready to go!
Thank you. Thank you.
Well, first of all, I wanna congratulate Senator Clinton on a hard-fought victory here in New Hampshire.
She did an outstanding job. Give her a big round of applause!
You know, a few weeks ago, no one imagined that we’d accomplish what we did here tonight in New Hampshire.
No one could imagine that.

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For most of this campaign, we were far behind. We always knew our climb would be steep.
But in record numbers, you came out and you spoke up for change.
And with your voices and your votes, you made it clear that at this moment —
in this election — there is something happening in America.
There is something happening when men and women in Des Moines and Davenport,
in Lebanon and Concord come out in the snows of January to wait in lines that stretch block after block because they believe in what this country can be.
There is something happening... There is something happening when Americans who are young in age and in spirit —
who have never participated in politics before —
turn out in numbers we have never seen because they know in their hearts that this time must be different.
There is something happening when people vote not just for the party that they belong to but the hopes they hold in common —

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that whether we are rich or poor, black or white, Latino or Asian, whether we hail from Iowa or New Hampshire,
Nevada or South Carolina, we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction.
That’s what’s happening in America right now. Change is what’s happening in America.
You — all of you who are here tonight, all who put so much heart and soul and work into this campaign —
you can be a new majority who can lead this nation out of a long political darkness —
Democrats, Independents and Republicans who are tired of the division and distraction that has clouded Washington;
who know that we can disagree without being disagreeable;
who understand... who understand that if we mobilize our voices to challenge the money and influence that’s stood in our way and challenge ourselves to reach for something better,
there is no problem we cannot solve, there is no destiny that we cannot fulfill.
Our new American majority can end the outrage of unaffordable, unavailable health care in our time.
We can bring... We can bring doctors and patients, workers and businesses, Democrats and Republicans together;
and we can tell the drug and insurance industry that while they get a seat at the table, they don’t get to buy every chair.
Not this time. Not now.

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Our new majority can end the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas
and put a middle-class tax cut into pockets of working Americans who deserve it.
We can stop sending our children to schools with corridors of shame and start putting them on a pathway to success.
We can stop talking about how great teachers are and start rewarding them for their greatness by giving them more pay and more support.
We can do this with our new majority.
We can harness the ingenuity of farmers, scientists, citizens,
and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil, save our planet from a point of no return.
And when I am President of the United States, we will end this war in Iraq and bring our troops home...
We will end this war in Iraq; we will bring our troops home;
we will finish the job... we will finish the job against al Qaeda in Afghanistan;
we will care for our veterans; we will restore our moral standing in the world;
and we will never use 9/11 as a way to scare up votes, because it is not a tactic to win an election,
it is a challenge that should unite America and the world against the common threats of the 21st century:
terrorism and nuclear weapons; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease.

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All of the candidates in this race share these goals.
All of the candidates in this race have good ideas.
And all are patriots who serve this country honorably.
But the reason our campaign has always been different,
the reason we began this improbable journey almost a year ago is because it’s not just about what I will do as President,
it is also about what you — the people who love this country,
the citizens of the United States of America — can do to change it.
That’s what this election is all about.
That’s why tonight belongs to you.
It belongs to the organizers and the volunteers and the staff who believed in this journey
and rallied so many others to join the calls.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way,
nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics —
they will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks and months to come.
We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check.

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We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we’ve been told that we’re not ready,
or that we shouldn’t try, or that we can’t, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people.
Yes we can. Yes we can. Yes we can.
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights.
Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot,
a President who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.

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Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world. Yes we can.
And so tomorrow, as we take the campaign South and West,
as we learn that the struggles of the textile worker in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas,
that the hopes of the little girl who goes to the crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA,
we will remember that there is something happening in America, that we are not as divided as our politics suggest,
that we are one people, we are one nation; and together,
we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast,
from sea to shining sea — Yes. We. Can.
Thank you, New Hampshire! Thank you!