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【文章內容簡介】 deeply held when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up won’t change after it shouldn’ arguments we have are a mark of our liberty, and we can never forget that as we speak, people in distant nations are risking their lives right now just for a chance to argue about the issues that matter —(cheers, applause)— the chance to cast their ballots like we did despite all our differences, most of us share certain hopes for America’s want our kids to grow up in a country where they have access to the best schools and the best teachers —(cheers, applause)— a country that lives up to its legacy as the global leader in technology and discovery and innovation —(scattered cheers, applause)— with all of the good jobs and new businesses that want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened up by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.(Cheers, applause.)We want to pass on a country that’s safe and respected and admired around the world, a nation that is defended by the strongest military on earth and the best troops this — this world has ever known —(cheers, applause)— but also a country that moves with confidence beyond this time of war to shape a peace that is built on the promise of freedom and dignity for every human believe in a generous America, in a passionate America, in a tolerant America open to the dreams of an immigrant’s daughter who studies in our schools and pledges to our flag —(cheers, applause)— to the young boy on the south side of Chicago who sees a life beyond the nearest street corner —(cheers, applause)— to the furniture worker’s child in North Carolina who wants to bee a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a ’s the —(cheers, applause)— that’s the future we hope for.(Cheers, applause.)That’s the vision we ’s where we need to go — forward.(Cheers, applause.)That’s where we need to go.(Cheers, applause.)Now, we will disagree, sometimes fiercely, about how to get it has for more than two centuries, progress will e in fits and ’s not always a straight ’s not always a smooth itself, the recognition that we have mon hopes and dreams won’t end all the gridlock, resolve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult promises needed to move this country that mon bond is where we must economy is decade of war is ending.(Cheers, applause.)A long campaign is now over.(Cheers, applause.)And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to have learned from you’ve made me a better with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.(Cheers, applause.)Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual.(Cheers, applause.)You elected us to focus on your jobs, not in the ing weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together — reducing our deficit, reforming out tax code, fixing our immigration system, freeing ourselves from foreign ’ve got more work to do.(Cheers, applause.)But that doesn’t mean your work is role of citizens in our democracy does not end with your ’s never been about what can be done for us。it’s about what can be done by us together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of selfgovernment.(Cheers, applause.)That’s the principle we were founded country has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us have the most powerful military in history, but that’s not what makes us university, our culture are all the envy of the world, but that’s not what keeps the world ing to our makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on Earth, the belief that our destiny is shared —(cheers, applause)— that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations, so that the freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for e with responsibilities as well as rights, and among those are love and charity and duty and ’s what makes America great.(Cheers, applause.)I am hopeful tonight because I have seen this spirit at work in ’ve seen it in the family business whose owners would rather cut their own pay than lay off their neighbors and in the workers who would rather cut back their hours than see a friend lose a ’ve seen it in the soldiers who reenlist after losing a limb and in those SEALs who charged up the stairs into darkness and danger because they knew there was a buddy behind them watching their back.(Cheers, applause.)I’ve seen it on the shores of New Jersey and New York, where leaders from every party and level of government have swept aside their differences to help a munity rebuild from the wreckage of a terrible storm.(Cheers, applause.)And I saw it just the other day in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8yearold daughter whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance pany was about to stop paying for her care.(Cheers, applause.)I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father but meet this incredible daughter of when he spoke to the crowd, listening to that father’s story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes because we knew that little girl could be our I know that every American wants her future to be just as ’s who we ’s the country I’m so proud to lead as your president.(Cheers, applause.)And tonight, despite all the hardship we’ve been through, despite all the frustrations of Washington, I’ve never been more hopeful about our future.(Cheers, applause.)I have never been more hopeful about I ask you to sustain that MEMBER: We got your back, !PRESIDENT OBAMA: I’m