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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, honored guests, my fellow Americans:
We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our Nation enjoyed, at once,
so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats. Never
before have we had such a blessed opportunity and, therefore, such a profound obligation to build the
more perfect Union of our Founders' dreams.
We begin the new century with over 20 million new jobs; the fastest economic growth in more than 30
years; the lowest unemployment rates in 30 years; the lowest poverty rates in 20 years; the lowest
African- American and Hispanic unemployment rates on record; the first back-to- back surpluses in 42
years; and next month, America will achieve the longest period of economic growth in our entire
history. We have built a new economy.
And our economic revolution has been matched by a revival of the American spirit: crime down by 20
percent, to its lowest level in 25 years; teen births down 7 years in a row; adoptions up by 30 percent;
welfare rolls cut in half to their lowest levels in 30 years.
My fellow Americans, the state of our Union is the strongest it has ever been.
As always, the real credit belongs to the American people. My gratitude also goes to those of you in
this Chamber who have worked with us to put progress over partisanship.
三是大力提高经济增长质量和效益。
四是更加重视社会发展和改善民生。
五是以改革开放为动力推进各项工作。
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With the smallest Federal work force in 40 years, we turned record deficits into record surpluses and
doubled our investment in education. We cut crime with 100,000 community police and the Brady law,
which has kept guns out of the hands of half a million criminals.
We ended welfare as we knew it, requiring work while protecting health care and nutrition for children
and investing more in child care, transportation, and housing to help their parents go to work. We've
helped parents to succeed at home and at work with family leave, which 20 million Americans have
now used to care for a newborn child or a sick loved one. We've engaged 150,000 young Americans
in citizen service through AmeriCorps, while helping them earn money for college.
In 1992 we just had a roadmap. Today,
Because we refused to stray from that path, we are doing something that would have seemed
unimaginable 7 years ago. We are actually paying down the national debt. Now, if we stay on this path,
we can pay down the debt entirely in just 13 years now and make America debt-free for the first time
since Andrew Jackson was President in 1835.
We know charter schools provide real public school choice. When I became President, there was just
one independent public charter school in all America. Today, thanks to you, there are 1,700. I ask you
now to help us meet our goal of 3,000 charter schools by next year.
结尾
各位代表！我们国家正站在新的历史起点上，朝着全面建设小康社会的目标阔步前进。
我们要更加紧密地团结在以胡Jintao同志为总书记的党中央周围，高举邓小平理论和“三
个代表”重要思想伟大旗帜，凝聚13亿人民的智慧和力量，坚定信心，奋发图强，努力
把“十一五”规划的宏伟蓝图变为美好现实，谱写社会主义现代化事业的新篇章。任何艰
难险阻都挡不住我们前进的步伐。我们的目标一定要达到!我们的目标一定能够达到!
My fellow Americans, every time I prepare for the State of the Union, I approach it with hope and
expectation and excitement for our Nation. But tonight is very special, because we stand on the
mountain top of a new millennium. Behind us we can look back and see the great expanse of American
achievement, and before us we can see even greater, grander frontiers of possibility. We should, all of
us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled
with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to
make the most of it.
You know, when the Framers finished crafting our Constitution in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin
stood in Independence Hall, and he reflected on the carving of the Sun that was on the back of a chair
he saw. The Sun was low on the horizon. So he said this--he said, "I've often wondered whether that
Sun was rising or setting. Today," Franklin said, "I have the happiness to know it's a rising Sun."
Today, because each succeeding generation of Americans has kept the fire of freedom burning
brightly, lighting those frontiers of possibility, we all still bask in the glow and the warmth of Mr.
Franklin's rising sun.
After 224 years, the American revolution continues. We remain a new nation. And as long as our
dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young. That is our destiny. And this is our
moment.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.