希拉里演讲前3段中英文
NEW YORK SENATE RACE SPEECH
You know, you know, we st ar t ed this great effort on a sunny July m or ning in Pindars Corner on Pat and Liz Moynihan’s beautiful f ar m and 62 2)coun t ies, 16 months, 3 debates, 2 opponents, and 6 bl a ck 3)pantsuits la ter, because of you, h ere we are.
You came out and said that issues and idea l s ma tter. J o bs ma tt er, downstate and upstate. Health c are ma tt er s, education ma tt er s, the environment ma tt er s, Social Securi t y ma tt er s, a woman’s right to choose ma tt er s. It all ma tt er s and I just want to say from the bottom of my h ear t, th a nk you, New Y or k!
Th a nk you for o p ening up y our minds and y our h ear ts, for seeing the p o ssibility of what we could do togeth er for our children and for our future here in this state and in our nation. I am profoundly grateful to all of you for giving me the ch a nce to s er ve you.
竞选纽约参议员的演讲
希拉里.克林顿
大家知道，我们是在七月的一个阳光灿烂的早上，从帕特和丽兹·莫伊尼汉的美丽农场的宾德角开始迈出了这艰难的一步，然后辗转六十二个县，历经过十六个月、三场辩论，打败了两个竞争对手，穿破六套黑色便服。
终于在你们的支持下，我们站在了这里。
你们说的这些事情和观念非常重要--全州的就业问题是重要的，保健是重要的，教育是重要的，环境是重要的，社会保险是重要的，还有妇女选择权是重要的。
这些全都重要，而我只想衷心道一声：谢谢你，纽约！
感谢你们敞开心扉，感谢你们看到了这可能性--我们将一起为后代、为我们纽约以至全国的将来而共同努力。
我对你们每个人都深怀谢意，感谢你们给了我一个为大家服务的机会。
我将以参议员丹尼尔·帕特里克·莫伊尼汉为榜样，尽自己最大的努力不负众望。
我希望你们每个人、诸位纽约市民和美国观众，和我一起共同感谢他这50年来为纽约和美国做出了巨大贡献。
莫伊尼汉议员：我代表纽约和美国，感谢你。
希拉里1995年女权演讲中英对照
1．Women's Rights Are Human RightsThank you very much, Gertrude Mongella, for your dedicated work that has brought us to this point, distinguished delegates, and guests.I would like to thank the Secretary General for inviting me to be part of this important United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. This is truly a celebration, a celebration of the contributions women make in every aspect of life: in the home, on the job, in the community, as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, learners, workers, citizens, and leaders.It is also a coming together, much the way women come together every day in every country. We come together in fields and factories, in village markets and supermarkets, in living rooms and board rooms. Whether it is while playing with our children in the park, or washing clothes in a river, or taking a break at the office water cooler, we come together and talk about our aspirations and concern. And time and again, our talk turns to our children and our families. However different we may appear, there is far more that unites us than divides us. We share a common future, and we are here to find common ground so that we may help bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world, and in so doing bring new strength and stability to families as well.1. 妇女的权利就是人权[1995年9月5日，希拉里作为美国第一夫人参加在北京举行的联合国第四次妇女大会全体会议，发表这篇主张“人权就是妇女的权利，妇女的权利就是人权”的演讲。
希拉里竞选美国总统演讲中英文.doc
希拉里竞选美国总统演讲中英文I’mgettingreadyforalotofthings.Alotofthings.我已准备好了要做很多事，特别多的事。
It’sspring,sowe’restartingtogetthegardensreadyandmytomatoesarelegenda ryhereinmyownneighborhood.春天到了，我们要开始了整理院子了。
在我们小区，我种的西红柿可是一个传说哦!Mydaughterisabou ttostartkindergartennextyear,andsowe’removingjustsos hecanbelongtoabetterschool.我女儿明年就要上幼儿园了，所以我们准备搬家，就是为了她能上好一点儿的学校。
......MybrotherandIarestartingourfirstbusiness......我的兄弟和我正打算创业。
Afterfiveyearsofraisingmychildren,Iamnowgoingbacktowork.五年来我一直都在带孩子。
现在我要重返职场了。
Everydaywe’retryingtogetmoreandmorereadyandmoreprepared.Babyboy, comingyourway.我们每天都在做准备。
现在准备是越来越充分了。
宝宝，来吧!RightnowI’mapplyingforjobs.It’salookintowhattherealworldwilllooklikeaf tercollege.我刚刚申请了工作，对毕业后的真实世界充满了期待。
I’mgettingmarriedthissummertosomeoneIreallycareabout.我今年夏天要结婚了跟一个我非常在乎的人结婚。
I’mgonnabeintheplayandI’mgonnabeinafishcostume.Fromlittletinyfishes.我要表演话剧了，穿着小鱼衣服，扮演小鱼鱼儿。
希拉里耶鲁大学演讲稿
文名人名校励志英语演讲稿： Dare to Compete， Dare to Care 敢于竞争，勇于关爱-—-美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿耶鲁大学演讲Dare to compete。
Dare to care。
Dare to dream。
Dare to love. Practice the art of making possible。
And no matter what happens， even if you hear shouts behind，keep going. 要敢于竞争,敢于关爱，敢于憧憬，大胆去爱！要努力创造奇迹！无论发生什么，即使有人在你背后大声喊叫，也要勇往直前。
It is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at Yale， especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary. I have had so many memories of my time here, and as Nick was speaking I thought about how I ended up at Yale Law School。
And it tells a little bit about how much progress we’ve made。
What I think most about when I think of Yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that I received. It was at Yale that I began work that has been at the core of what I have cared about ever since. I began working with New Haven legal services representing children。
2020年希拉里宣布竞选美国总统中英双语演讲_竞选演讲稿_
2020年希拉里宣布竞选美国总统中英双语演讲
"I'm running for president,Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion so you can do more than just get by. You can get ahead and stay ahead. Because when families are strong, America is strong."
“我正在竞选总统。
美国民众正努力从艰难的经济形势中脱身，但这一平台仍然在向高端阶层倾斜。
美国民众每天都需要一名冠军，我想成为这一冠军，这样你们可以做得更多，而不是仅作看客。
你们可以向前迈步、置身未来。
因为只有家庭强大了，美国才强大。
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"So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote. Because it's your time and I hope you'll join me on this journey."
“因此，我正在努力争取你们的选票。
因为这是你们的时代，我希望你们能够在这一过程中加入我的阵营。
”。
希拉里演讲词辞
英文原文希拉里开幕辞Good morning. And Zhongxing Huanyin. I’m so pleased to see all of you here, so many members of our Cabinet. We are excited to begin this Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the United States and China.It is a privilege to open this ina ugural meeting. I’m especially pleased that Secretary Geithner and I have been able to welcome State Councilor Dai and Vice Premier Wang. (Applause. ) We are looking forward to resuming the very fruitful discussions that we’ve already had, both Secretary Geithner and myself, and particularly President Obama and President Hu Jintao.This is both a culmination, and a beginning. It is a culmination of actions taken by our predecessors 30 years ago, when the United States and China established formal diplomatic relations. What followed was a blossoming of Chinese economic growth and diplomatic engagement that has allowed our nations to reach this place of opportunity today.But this dialogue also marks a beginning of an unprecedented effort to lay the foundation for a positive, cooperative, and comprehensive U.S.-Chinese relationship in the 21st century.That so many members of President Obama’s cabinet are here reflects our belief that a stronger relationship will yield rewards, not only for our two nations, but indeed for the world beyond.We believe that in the decades ahead, great countries will be defined less by their power to dominate or divide than by their capacity to solve problems. It is this reality that no country can solve today’s challenges alone – that demands a new global architecture for progress.Although past relations between the United States and China have been influenced by the idea of a balance of power among great nations, the fresh thinking of the 21st century can move us from a multi-polar world to a multi-partner world. And it is our hope that the dialogue we initiate today will enable us to shape a common agenda.We know that our nations face common global threats, from the economic crisis, tonon-proliferation, climate change, clean energy, pandemic disease, global poverty, North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and beyond.So to meet these threats, we must find common ground and work together in common purpose, even as we may disagree on certain issues.As we’ll hear later from th e President, the Obama Administration is committed to broader engagement, using robust diplomacy and development, working with and beyond government to solve regional and global problems.When I was in China in February, it was my first time back in almost a decade. And I was struck, as many visitors are, by the transformation that had taken place. Driving on the third ring road in Beijing, I felt like I was watching a movie in fast-forward. From a few high rise buildings on my last trip, to a gleaming Olympic complex and corporate skyscrapers today. From millions of Flying Pigeon bicycles navigating the streets, to cars of every model traversing modern thoroughfares. And for those traveling to Shanghai, an already cosmopolitan world city soon to add the Shanghai Expo.All are testaments to China’s dynamism and growth. And the United States welcomes this. We welcome China’s role in promoting peace and stability in the Asian Pacific. Over the past 30 years, the United States has helped to foster security in the region, and that has been a critical factor in China’s growth, and an important strategic interest of our own. In the future, we will remain actively engaged in promoting the security of Asia. When misunderstandings or disagreements arise, we will work through them peacefully and through interactive dialogue.This Strategic and Economic Dialogue differs from past dialogues in scope, substance, and approach. It is comprehensive by design, meant to enlist the full range of talents within our government and to include cross-cutting challenges that are neither bureaucratically neat, nor easily compartmentalized.With this dialogue we are laying, brick by brick, the foundation of a stronger relationship –improving lines of communication; increasing understanding; setting priorities; and creating a work plan.Our agenda will focus on several areas:First, Secretary Geithner and Vice Premier Wang will certainly demonstrate the economic recovery that is critical to both of us. This is a priority. We’ve taken a ggressive action; so has the Chinese government.Second, climate change and clean energy. As the world’s two biggest emitters, we must demonstrate to the developed and developing world alike that clean energy and economic growth go hand-in-hand. We already have promising partnerships. When I was in Beijing, I toured a geo-thermal plant that is a true U.S.-Chinese collaboration. General Electric has provided high-tech equipment to produce heat and power with half the emissions, and far less water usage than the coal plants that are typically relied on. And Chinese businesses build the steam turbines that help to power the plant. This plant saves costs and provides clean energy –including heat for the U.S. Embassy.Third, security challenges. I just attended the ASEAN conference in Thailand, where the North Korean regime’s recent provocations were a subject of great concern. China and the United States both appreciate the dangers of escalating tensions and a prospective arms race in East Asia, and we both are going to work against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.Already, we have cooperated very closely together and we are grateful to the Chinese government and their leadership in establishing the Six Party Talks and its close cooperation with us in response to North Korean missile launches. We will also discuss our common concerns about the nuclear weapons capability of Iran, and explore ways to address violent extremism and promote stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan.Fourth, we will talk about development, because we think like diplomacy, is an equally important pillar of American foreign policy. We know that many of the world’s threats emanate from poverty, social erosion, and political instability and in turn contribute to them. So by addressing hunger, illiteracy, disease, economic marginalization from the bottom up, insisting on accountability and adherence to the rule of law, we believe we can widen opportunity and prosperity for more people in more places.Now none of these problems, even with our closer cooperation will be easy to solve, and results will not happen overnight. And we will not always see eye-to-eye. That is the case in certain instances concerning human rights, where the United States will continue to be guided by the ideal of religious and other freedoms that must be respected. Still, solutions to many ofthe global challenges today are within reach if we work together where our interests intersect, and where we cannot, we will be honest with each other.A well-known C hinese saying speaks of a sacred mountain in northern China near Confucius’ home. And it says: “When people are of one mind and heart, they can move Mt. Tai.”Now we cannot expect to be united on every issue and every turn, but we can be of one mind and heart on the need to find this common ground as we build a common and better future.The Obama Administration has embraced this dialogue with China early and energetically because we want to see it bring fruit. This is an issue of great importance to me as Secretary of State, and I look forward to the discussions today and tomorrow and to the follow-up work that we will do together.It is now my great honor to introduce Vice Premier Wang.。
希拉里演讲稿
能生活在我国多元文化最丰富多彩、最生气勃勃、最美丽的一个州，我们是多么的幸运。大家知道，从南布朗克斯到纽约最南端，从布鲁克林到布法罗，从蒙特哥到马塞纳，从世界上最高的摩天大楼到令人叹为观止的绵延山脉，我认识了不少人，我永远也不会忘记他们的容貌和故事。纽约六十二个县成千上万的纽约人把我迎进了你们的学校、你们的风味小餐馆、你们的车间、你们的起居室和前廊。你们教导着我，你们考验着我，你们把面临的难题和关心的问题告诉我－－拥挤的校园和破旧的校舍，养育孩子和赡养年迈双亲的艰辛，寻求人人同等待遇的挑战，还有在纽约州北部地区因为就业机会难寻，孩子们都离开故乡、移往他处的问题。长期以来，我一直在为这些问题奔忙，有些问题甚至我已经为之奋斗了30年之久，我决心让这些问题得到改观。
You see， I believe our nation 10）owes every responsible citizen and every responsible family the tools that they need to make the most of their own lives． That’s the basic bargain． I’ll do my best to honor in the United States Senate．
Thank you for opening up your minds and your hearts， for seeing the possibility of what we could do together for our children and for our future here in this state and in our nation． I am profoundly grateful to all of you for giving me the chance to serve you．
希拉里退出总统选举演讲中英文
希拉里退出总统选举演讲（中英文）Thank you so much. Thank you all.非常感谢各位！谢谢你们！Well, this isn't exactly the party I'd planned, but I sure like the company. (APPLAUSE)这场聚会并不是我事先计划好的哦，但是我很感谢有你们的陪伴。
I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you--to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, who drove for miles and lined the streets waving homemade signs, who scrimped and saved to raise money, who knocked on doors and made calls, who talked and sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors, (APPLAUSE)who e-mailed and contributed online, who invested so much in our common enterprise. To the moms and dads who came to our events, who lifted their little girls and little boys on their shoulders and whispered in their ears, "See, you can be anything you want to be." (APPLAUSE)从今天开始我想要感谢所有的人——感谢那些倾注了你们的热情和希望在这次竞选活动中的人们，感谢那些长途跋涉，在街上挥舞自制标语的人们，感谢那些省吃俭用，踊跃募款的人们，感谢那些到各家各户敲门，给每个人打电话，并且和你的朋友邻居们讨论甚至争论起来的人们。
希拉里演讲稿中英文
希拉里演讲稿中英文希拉里在纽约大学的演讲,句句铿锵有力,语调发音都很标注,是学习英语的必备材料。
下面是X整理的一些20XX 希拉里纽约大学演讲词中英文，希望大家喜欢!20XX希拉里纽约大学演讲词中英文Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. And does it get any better than this, a graduation ceremony for one of the great universities in the world in the home of New York Yankees? Nothing could be better. (Applause.) And thanks to all of you for cheering a visitor. I didn't realize that was permitted in Yankee Stadium.谢谢，谢谢，非常感谢。
还有比这更好的事吗——世界上最好的大学之一在纽约扬基队主场所在地举行毕业典礼?真是再好不过了。
(掌声) 谢谢大家如此热烈地为一位来访的客人加油。
我原以为在扬基体育场不可以这样做。
I am honored to receive this degree. And on behalf of the other honorees, I say thank you. Thank you for giving us this singular privilege of being part of this xxmencement ceremony. As I look out at this huge crowd of graduates, family, and friends, I can only reflecton what an extraordinary moment in history you are receiving your degrees, a moment in time of our country and the world where your talents and your energy, your passion and xxmitment is more needed than ever. There is no doubt that you are well prepared for a world that seems somewhat uncertain but which will welxxe the education that you have received on behalf of not only of yourselves and your families, but your xxmunities and your country.能够获得这个学位，我感到十分荣幸。
伟大的民主精神---希拉里退选演说原稿及翻译
Thank you very, very much. Well, this isn't exactly the party I'd planned, but I sure like the co mpany.非常非常感谢大家！这的确不是我曾经计划的派对，但我确实喜欢与你们同在。
And I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you, to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, who drove for miles and lined the streets wavin g homemade signs, who scrimped and saved to raise money, who knocked on doors and mad e calls, who talked, sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors，who e-mailed and contributed online, who invested[in'vest] so much in our common enterprise to the moms and dads who came to our events, who lifted their little girls and little boys on their shoulders,and whispered in their ears, "See, you can be anything you want to be." 今天，首先我要表达我衷心地谢意，感谢所有为（我的）竞选倾注热情与希望的人们，你们驱车百里，排满街道，挥舞着自制标语，你们省吃省用、踊跃筹款，你们或登门拜访或拨打电话（邀集选民），有时你们甚至与你们的朋友邻居争论，你们通过电邮在线捐款，你们为了我们共同的事业奉献了太多太多；感谢那些带着孩子们加入我们盛举的父母们，他们将孩子们高举在肩头，并对他们轻声叮咛“看，（孩子），一切梦想，皆可成真”To the young people like 13-year-old Anne Riddell (ph) from Mayfield, Ohio who had been savi ng for two years to go to Disney World and decided to use her savings instead to travel to Pen nsylvania,with her mom and volunteer[, there, as well. To the veterans to the childhood friends , to New Yorkers and Arkansans who traveled across the country, telling anyone who would list en why you supported me. And to all of those women in their 80s and their 90s born before wo men could vote, who cast their votes for our campaign. I've told you before about Florence Stei n (ph) of South Dakota who was 88 years old and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee ballot to her hospice bedside. Her daughter and a friend put an American flag behind her bed and helped her fill out the ballot. She passed away soon after and, under state law, her ballot di dn't count, but her daughter later told a reporter, "My dad's an ornery old cowboy, and he didn't like it when he heard Mom's vote wouldn't be counted. I don't think he had voted in 20 years, b ut he voted in place of my mom."我也要感谢像安这样的年轻人们，她今年刚13岁，来自俄亥俄州的梅菲尔得市，她决定把过去两年中本为去迪士尼攒下的钱用来和妈妈一起去宾夕法尼亚充当志愿者；还要感谢那些退伍老兵，孩提时的朋友，以及纽约和阿肯色地区的人们，你们走遍全国，向所有愿意倾听的人们解释支持我的理由；我更要感谢那些八九十岁的女选民，她们在女性尚没有选举权之前出生，这次她们为我们的竞选投票。
希拉里耶鲁大学演讲稿
文名人名校励志英语演讲稿： Dare to Compete, Dare to Care 敢于竞争，勇于关爱---美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿耶鲁大学演讲Dare to compete. Dare to care. Dare to dream. Dare to love. Practice the art of making possible. And no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going. 要敢于竞争，敢于关爱，敢于憧憬，大胆去爱！要努力创造奇迹！无论发生什么，即使有人在你背后大声喊叫，也要勇往直前。
It is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at Yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary. I have had so many memories of my time here, and as Nick was speaking I thought about how I ended up at Yale Law School. And it tells a little bit about how much progress we’ve made.What I think most about when I think of Yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that I received. It was at Yale that I began work that has been at the core of what I have cared about ever since. I began working with New Haven legal services representing children. And I studied child development, abuse and neglect at the Yale New Haven Hospital and the Child Study Center. I was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with Marian Wright Edelman at the Children’s Defense Fund, where I went to work after I graduated. Those experiences fueled in me a passion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most vulnerable.Now, looking back, there is no way that I could have predicted what path mylife would have taken. I didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, I think I’ll graduate and then I’ll go to work at the Children’s Defense Fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and Nixon retired or resigns, I’ll go to Arkansas. I didn’t think like that. I was taking each day at a time. But, I’ve been very fortunate because I’ve always had an idea in my mind about what I thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose.A set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should care about and believe in. A passion to succeed at what l thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, that guiding light. Because l have that absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most blessed of nations that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his or her God-given potential.But you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal mission statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns.When I was thinking about running for the United States Senate-which was such an enormous decision to make, one I never could have dreamed that I would have been making when I was here on campus-I visited a school in New York City and I met a young woman, who was a star athlete. woman, who was a star athlete.I was there because of Billy Jean King promoting an HBO special about womenin sports called “Dare to compete.” It wa s about Title IX and how we finally, thanks to government action, provided opportunities to girls and women in sports. And although I played not very well at intramural sports, I have always been a strong supporter of women in sports. And I was introduced by this young woman, and as I went to shake her hand she obviously had been reading the newspapers about people saying I should or shouldn’t run for the Senate. And I was congratulating her on the speech she had just made and she held onto my hand and sh e said, “Dare to compete, Mrs. Clinton. Dare to compete.”I took that to heart because it is hard to compete sometimes, especially in public ways, when your failures are there for everyone to see and you don’t know what is going to happen from one day to the next. And yet so much of life, whether we like to accept it or not, is competing with ourselves to be the best we can be, being involved in classes or professions or just life, where we know we are competing with others.I took her advice and I did compete because I chose to do so. And the biggest choices that you’ll face in your life will be yours alone to make. I’m sure you’ll receive good advice. You’re got a great education to go back and reflect about what is right for you, but you eventually will have to choose and I hope that you will dare to compete. And by that I don’t mean the kind of cutthroat competition that is too often characterized by what is driving America today.I mean the small voice inside you that says to you, you can do it, you can take this risk, you can take this next step.And it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed. In fact, you won’t. There are setbacks and you will experience difficult disappointments. You will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked out of you. But if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make a difference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others. You can get back up, you can keep going.But it is also important, as I have found, not to take yourself too seriously, because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit. I think every day of the blessings my birth gave me without any doing of my own. I chose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything I’ve ever done, determined my course.You compare my or your circumstances with those of the majority of people who’ve ever lived or who are living right now, they too often are born knowing too well what the ir futures will be. They lack the freedom to choose their life’s path. They’re imprisoned by circumstances of poverty and ignorance, bigotry, disease, hunger, oppression and war.So, dare to compete, yes, but maybe even more difficult, dare to care. Dare to care about people who need our help to succeed and fulfill their own lives. There are so many out there and sometimes all it takes is the simplest of gestures or helping hands and many of you understand that already. I know that the numbers of graduates in the last 20 years have worked in community organizations, have tutored, have committed themselves to religious activities.You have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you. You have dared to care.Well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women, against hate crimes and bigotry. Dare to care about public schools without qualified teachers or adequate resources. Dare to care about protecting our environment. Dare to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance. Dare to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail. The seven million people who suffer from HIV/AIDS. And thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with HIV/AIDS, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further.And I’ll also add, dare enough to care about our political process. Yo u know, as I go and speak with students I’m impressed so much, not only in formal settings, on campuses, but with my daughter and her friends, about how much you care, about how willing you are to volunteer and serve. You may have missed the last wave of t he revolution, but you’ve understood that the munity revolution is there for you every single day. And you’ve been willing to be part of remarking lives in our community.And yet, there is a real resistance, a turning away from the political process.I hope that some of you will be public servants and will even run for office yourself, not to win a position to make and impression on your friends at your20th reunion, but because you understand how important it is for each of us as citizens to make a commitment to our democracy.Your generation, the first one born after the social upheavals of the 60’s and 70’s, in the midst of the technological advances of the 80’s and 90’s, are inheriting an economy, a society and a government that has yet to understand fully, or even come to grips with, our rapidly changing world.And so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics. Dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics. Some have called yo u the generation of choice. You’ve been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles. You’ve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations.You’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought possible. And I think as I look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility.The social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down. Community service and religious involvement being up. But if you look at the area of voting among 18 to 29 year olds, the numbers tell a far more troubling tale. Many of you I know believe that service and community volunteerism is a better way of solving the issues facing ourcountry than political engagement, because you believe-choose one of the following multiples or choose them all-government either can’t understand or won’t make the right choices because of political pressures, inefficiency, incompetence or big money influence.Well, I admit there is enough truth in that critique to justify feeling disconnected and alienated. But at bottom, that’s a personal cop-out and a national peril. Political conditions maximize the conditions for individual opportunity and responsibility as well as community. Americorps and the Peace Corps exist because of political decisions. Our air, water, land and food will be clean and safe because of political choices. Our ability to cure disease or log onto the Internet have been advanced because of politically determined investments. Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo ended because of political leadership. Your parents and grandparents traveled here by means of government built and subsidized transportation systems. Many used GI Bills or government loans, as I did, to attend college.Now, I could, as you might guess, go on and on, but the point is to remind us all that government is us and each generation has to stake its claim. And, as stakeholders, you will have to decide whether or not to make the choice to participate. It is hard and it is, bringing change in a democracy, particularly now. There’s so much about our modern times that conspire to lower our sights, to weaken our vision-as individuals and communities and even nations.It is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather it’s a silentconspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism.But as many have said before and as Vaclav Havel ha s said to memorably, “It cannot suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions. It is necessary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this Earth and of our deeds.” And I think we are ca lled on to reject, in this time of blessings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us down and instead to liberate our God-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dream of a better world.During my campaign, when times were tough and days were long I used to think about the example of Harriet Tubman, a heroic New Yorker, a 19th century Moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom. She would say to those who she gathered up in the South where she kept going back year after year from the safety of Auburn, New York, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going. If they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep going. If they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to freedom. Well, those aren’t the risks we face. It is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our heels.Thirty-two years ago, I spoke at my own graduation from Wellesley, where I did call on my fellow classmates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead to embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all theskill of our being the art of making possible.For after all, our fate is to be free. To choose competition over apathy, caring over indifference, vision over myopia, and love over hate.Just as this is a special time in your lives, it is for me as well because my daughter will be graduating in four weeks, graduating also from a wonderful place with a great education and beginning a new life. And as I think about all the parents and grandparents who are out there, I have a sense of what their feeling. Their hearts are leaping with joy, but it’s hard to keep tears in check because the presence of our children at a time and place such as this is really a fulfillment of our own American dreams. Well, I applaud you and all of your love, commitment and hard work, just as I applaud your daughters and sons for theirs.And I leave these graduates with the same message I hope to leave with my graduate. Dare to compete. Dare to care. Dare to dream. Dare to love. Practice the art of making possible. And no matter what happens, even if you hear shouts behind, keep going.Thank you and God bless you all.。