Presidential Inauguration Speech George Walker Bush (1946-) Facts Years as President: 2001-
Party affiliation: Republican
Schools: Yale University, Harvard University
Occupations before President: Owner of oil and gas busine, Governor of Texas
Did you know: The first Texas governor to be elected to two four-year terms
提示一：布什标榜自己是自由贸易的代言人，他还将在演讲时强调美国在世界上的作用。
提示二：布什总是喜欢在别人面前表现得直率和规矩。布什继承了他(克林顿)较为吸引人的淘气的一面。
提示三：小布什在多次挫折中学会了冷静和忍耐。他的生活座右铭是\"船到桥头自然直\"。
小布什与副总统戈尔的竞选大战，经过几次的重新点票，几番波折，终于由小布什以微弱的票数胜出。这让世人见识了美国的民主，美国的总统选举，因此布什在开篇就提到。小布什2000年竞选的胜利没有明显的优势，他的形象也并不受欢迎。但他讲话错误百出的问题在就职演讲中收敛了很多，他的谦卑也是有目共睹的。
Presidential Inauguration Speech
Delivered on January 20, 2001
I thank you all.Chief Justice Renquist, President Carter, President Bush, President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens:
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
I am honored and humbled to stand here where so many of America\'s leaders have come before me, and so many will follow.
We have a place, all of us, in a long story A story we continued, but whose end we will not see.It is a story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old.A story of a slave holding society that became a servant of freedom.It is the American story.A story of flawed and fallible people, united acro the generations by grand and enduring ideals.
The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws.And though our nation has sometimes halted and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other course.
I will live and lead by these principles, to advance my convictions with civility, to pursue the public interest with courage, to speak for greater justice and compaion, to call for responsibility, and try to live it as well.In all these ways, I will bring the values of our history to the care of our times.
What you do is as important as any- thing government does.I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort, to defend needed reforms against easy attacks, to serve your nation beginning with your neighbor.I ask you to be citizens; citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.
Americans are generous and strong and decent not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.When this spirit of citizenship is miing, no government program can replace it.When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginian statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson.We know the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? Much time has paed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration.The years and changes accumulate.But the themes of this day, he would know; our nation\'s grand story of courage, and its simple dream of dignity.
Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing.We renew that purpose today, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of our lives, and every life.This work continues.The story goes on.And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.
God ble you all and God ble America!
【名人演讲】乔治183;赫伯特183;沃克183;布什：总统就职演说
