[分享]美国总统克林顿在白宫发表离职演说全文
THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, tonight is my last
opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your President. I amprofoundly
grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serve -- towork for you
and with you to prepare our nation for the 21st century.
And I'm grateful to Vice President Gore, to my Cabinet
Secretaries, and to all those who have served with me for the last eight
years.
This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have
risen to every new challenge. You have made our social fabric stronger,our
families healthier and safer, our people more prosperous. You, the American
people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of
great American renewal.
In all the work I have done as President -- every decision I have
made, every executive action I have taken, every bill I have proposed and signed,
I've tried to give all Americans the tools and conditions to build the
future of our dreams in a good society, with a strong economy, a cleaner
environment, and a freer, safer, more prosperous world.
I have steered my course by our enduring values -- opportunity
for all, responsibility from all, a community of all Americans. I have sought
to give America a new kind of government, smaller, more modern, more effective,
full of ideas and policies appropriate to this new time, always putting
people first, always focusing on the future.
Working together, America has done well. Our economy is breaking
records, with more than 22 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment in
30 years, the highest home ownership ever, the longest expansion in history.
Our families and communities are stronger. Thirty-five million
Americans have used the Family Leave law; 8 million have moved off welfare.Crime
is at a 25-year low. Over 10 million Americans receive more collegeaid,
and more people than ever are going to college. Our schools arebetter.
Higher standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought
higher test scores and higher graduation rates.
More than 3 million children have health insurance now, and more
than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty. Incomes are
rising across the board. Our air and water are cleaner. Our food and
drinking water are safer. And more of our precious land has been preserved in
the continental United States than at any time in a hundred years.
America has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner
of the globe. I'm very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of
leadership to a new President with America in such a strong position to meet
the challenges of the future.
Tonight I want to leave you with three thoughts about our future.
First, America must maintain our record of fiscal responsibility.
Through our last four budgets we've turned record deficits to
record surpluses, and we've been able to pay down $600 billion of our
national debt, on track to be debt-free by the end of the decade for the first
time since 1835. Staying on that course will bring lower interest rates,
greater prosperity, and the opportunity to meet our big challenges.If we
choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the
baby boomers, invest more in our future, and provide tax relief.
Second, because the world is more connected every day, in every
way, America's security and prosperity require us to continue to lead in the
world. At this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom
than ever before. Our alliances are stronger than ever. People all around
the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom
and security.
The global economy is giving more of our own people and billions
around the world the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.
But the forces of integration that have created these good opportunities
also make us more subject to global forces of destruction --to terrorism,
organized crime and narco trafficking, the spread of deadly weapons and
disease, the degradation of the global environment.
The expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those
of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around
the world who live on the knife's edge of survival. This global gap requires
more than compassion; it requires action. Global poverty is a powder keg
that could be ignited by our indifference.
In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson warned of
entangling alliances. But in our times, America cannot, and must not,
disentangle itself from the world. If we want the world to embody our
shared values, then we must assume a shared responsibility.
If the wars of the 20th century, especially the recent ones in
Kosovo and Bosnia, have taught us anything, it is that we achieve our aims by
defending our values, and leading the forces of freedom and peace. We must
embrace boldly and resolutely that duty to lead -- to stand with our allies
in word and deed, and to put a human face on the global economy, so that
expanded trade benefits all peoples in all nations, lifting lives and hopes
all across the world.
Third, we must remember that America cannot lead in the world
unless here at home we weave the threads of our coat of many colors into the
fabric of one America. As we become ever more diverse, we must work harder
to unite around our common values and our common humanity. We must work
harder to overcome our differences, in our hearts and in our laws. We must
treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race,
religion, gender or sexual orientation, and regardless of when they arrived
in our country; always moving toward the more perfect union of our founders'
dreams.
Hillary, Chelsea and I join all Americans in wishing our very
best to the next President, George W. Bush, to his family and his
administration, in meeting these challenges, and in leading freedom's marchin
this new century.
As for me, I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full
of hope than the day I arrived, and more confident than ever that America'sbest
days lie ahead.
My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of
service, I hope, are not. In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher
or a covenant more sacred than that of President of the United States.
But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen.
Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America.
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opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your President. I amprofoundly
grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serve -- towork for you
and with you to prepare our nation for the 21st century.
And I'm grateful to Vice President Gore, to my Cabinet
Secretaries, and to all those who have served with me for the last eight
years.
This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have
risen to every new challenge. You have made our social fabric stronger,our
families healthier and safer, our people more prosperous. You, the American
people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of
great American renewal.
In all the work I have done as President -- every decision I have
made, every executive action I have taken, every bill I have proposed and signed,
I've tried to give all Americans the tools and conditions to build the
future of our dreams in a good society, with a strong economy, a cleaner
environment, and a freer, safer, more prosperous world.
I have steered my course by our enduring values -- opportunity
for all, responsibility from all, a community of all Americans. I have sought
to give America a new kind of government, smaller, more modern, more effective,
full of ideas and policies appropriate to this new time, always putting
people first, always focusing on the future.
Working together, America has done well. Our economy is breaking
records, with more than 22 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment in
30 years, the highest home ownership ever, the longest expansion in history.
Our families and communities are stronger. Thirty-five million
Americans have used the Family Leave law; 8 million have moved off welfare.Crime
is at a 25-year low. Over 10 million Americans receive more collegeaid,
and more people than ever are going to college. Our schools arebetter.
Higher standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought
higher test scores and higher graduation rates.
More than 3 million children have health insurance now, and more
than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty. Incomes are
rising across the board. Our air and water are cleaner. Our food and
drinking water are safer. And more of our precious land has been preserved in
the continental United States than at any time in a hundred years.
America has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner
of the globe. I'm very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of
leadership to a new President with America in such a strong position to meet
the challenges of the future.
Tonight I want to leave you with three thoughts about our future.
First, America must maintain our record of fiscal responsibility.
Through our last four budgets we've turned record deficits to
record surpluses, and we've been able to pay down $600 billion of our
national debt, on track to be debt-free by the end of the decade for the first
time since 1835. Staying on that course will bring lower interest rates,
greater prosperity, and the opportunity to meet our big challenges.If we
choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the
baby boomers, invest more in our future, and provide tax relief.
Second, because the world is more connected every day, in every
way, America's security and prosperity require us to continue to lead in the
world. At this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom
than ever before. Our alliances are stronger than ever. People all around
the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom
and security.
The global economy is giving more of our own people and billions
around the world the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.
But the forces of integration that have created these good opportunities
also make us more subject to global forces of destruction --to terrorism,
organized crime and narco trafficking, the spread of deadly weapons and
disease, the degradation of the global environment.
The expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those
of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around
the world who live on the knife's edge of survival. This global gap requires
more than compassion; it requires action. Global poverty is a powder keg
that could be ignited by our indifference.
In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson warned of
entangling alliances. But in our times, America cannot, and must not,
disentangle itself from the world. If we want the world to embody our
shared values, then we must assume a shared responsibility.
If the wars of the 20th century, especially the recent ones in
Kosovo and Bosnia, have taught us anything, it is that we achieve our aims by
defending our values, and leading the forces of freedom and peace. We must
embrace boldly and resolutely that duty to lead -- to stand with our allies
in word and deed, and to put a human face on the global economy, so that
expanded trade benefits all peoples in all nations, lifting lives and hopes
all across the world.
Third, we must remember that America cannot lead in the world
unless here at home we weave the threads of our coat of many colors into the
fabric of one America. As we become ever more diverse, we must work harder
to unite around our common values and our common humanity. We must work
harder to overcome our differences, in our hearts and in our laws. We must
treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race,
religion, gender or sexual orientation, and regardless of when they arrived
in our country; always moving toward the more perfect union of our founders'
dreams.
Hillary, Chelsea and I join all Americans in wishing our very
best to the next President, George W. Bush, to his family and his
administration, in meeting these challenges, and in leading freedom's marchin
this new century.
As for me, I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full
of hope than the day I arrived, and more confident than ever that America'sbest
days lie ahead.
My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of
service, I hope, are not. In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher
or a covenant more sacred than that of President of the United States.
But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen.
Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America.
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