克林顿2010年耶鲁大学演讲全文

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Bill Clinton at Yale Commencement2010
Speech Transcript
专利授权书Thank you very much,Caitlin,Bobby,ladies and gentlemen.
I wasn't sure I was coming to fashion week.
President Levin,Vice President Lorimer,if I had--you know,all I got was this little class napkin.I feel if it were a little bigger,I'd turn it into a doo-rag so I could feel right at home.变得英语
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]I just went over and said a word to Dean Brenzel, becau you may have en he had an article in the Huffington Post.
It said,now if they'd asked me to give this speech,this is what I would have said.
It's really good.It's really good.
But if you had done that then I'd have misd all your hats.
How could anybody possibly be worried about the future of the world when it's in your hand?[APPLA
USE]I mean anybody with this kind of judgment and head
gear will have no problem solving all the other challenges.
Let me say,in all riousness,I'm honored to be here.
I congratulate the graduates,and I want to thank you and your families,your friends, the faculty and staff for letting me share this day.
I am profoundly grateful to Yale becau of the things I learned,the professors I had, the friends of a lifetime,the fact that I still work with a lot of people from Yale
in public health and endeavors we have together in Ethiopia and in Liberia.
The President of Liberia,Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is here and I thank her.
But most of all,I'm grateful becau if I hadn't come here I never would have met Hilary.
[APPLAUSE]So,she's been in Shanghai for two days at this big world expo they're having over there,and she called me last night and told me she had given this speech and how much it meant to her,how much you loved it.
She didn't prepare me for your sartorial splendor quite as much as she should have, but I'm very proud of the work she's doing and I'm very grateful to Yale becau
I would have misd it if I hadn't come here.
And we've had a remarkable life together.
I say that becau we've been gone from Yale since1973--that's37years,if my math still works.
And yet it ems to me as if we were here yesterday.
So I thought and thought and thought.
I said how can I be brief,which I owe you--you know,when you have as good a n of humor as you've displayed today,you're at least entitled to a short speech, and still say something that might be helpful.
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Here's the best I can do.
The world you are going into that you will shape,should be the most interesting, exciting,fulfilling,stunning time in human history.
I mean after all,we've torn down all the barriers of time and space and people are no longer confined to where they were born,and so America has become explosively diver.
You might be interested to know that at our pavilion in Shanghai,one of the things that is most emphasized is how there's somebody here from everywhere.
I'm trying to get the World Cup of soccer to come to America in2018or2022,and my main pitch is this is the only place you can go where everybody will have a home team cheering squad.
It's an amazing thing and it makes life a lot more interesting.
The internet is amazing.
When I became President,believe it or not--I know for a lot of you this is the dark ages,but it was really just yesterday--on January of1993,January20th,you
know how many sites there were on the entire worldwide web?50.
5-0.
More than that have been added since I started talking.
The average cell phone on the day I took the Oath of Office weighed five pounds. Now you know somebody like me with big hands has to have one wide enough so that you only had to redial about one in every four times.
It's a fascinating time.
Look at all the scientific discoveries that have been coming out--the genome was quenced first in2000,probably the major scientific advance of the eight years
I rved,and I spent a lot of your family's tax money trying to get that done. [LAUGHTER]But certainly the most amusing,off-shoot of genome
rearch appeared the last couple of weeks when we learned that every one of us in our genomic make up are between1%and4%descended from neanderthals.
And I'm glad all of us made it becau if only the men had made it,we'd never hear the end of it.梦到自己剪头发
And now we all have an excu for every dumb thing we've ever done going back to age five.
It's great.
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I say that but it is interesting.
It is interesting furthermore that the genome quencing's first profoundly significant finding was that,from a genetic point of view,all human beings are99.9%the same. Then Craig Ventor's independent project said,no that's all wrong,we're only99.5% the same.
Now with three billion units,4/10of1%is significant,but from a social,political, philosophical point of view,it doesn't matter.
You just look around this vast crowd of your classmates,every single physical difference you can e is the product of somewhere between1/10and5/10of a percent of your genetic makeup.
And what I want to say is most of us spend99%of our time thinking about that1/10, the5/10of1%.
春望You're going to have a lot of people tell you,and it'll all be true,how smart you are, how gifted you are,how fortunate you've been,how,as our committee said,if we just give one of you a lever,you can move the world.
It's all true.
韩国为什么叫棒子What I want you to take a few minutes thinking about is the99.5%of you,becau my basic belief is the only way that you can make the most of the world that lies before you,is to believe that it's interesting and fascinating and profoundly important as all of our diversities are,our common humanity matters more.
And that leads us to certain fundamental conclusion,as does the fact that our fate has caught up with the fate of the planet which we occupy.
I think about this a lot now.
I think about what young people who have more tomorrows than yesterdays are to make of the world they have inherited.
It's really quite extraordinary.
I read just this week,we had this amazing breakthrough in physics attempting to determine how life on earth began,and the results em to suggest that subatomic elements of matter,which normally under the laws of physics would be expected to cancel each other out over and over and over again so life could never have formed in the first place,didn't becau there were slightly more positive than negative elements of the most basic building block of matter.
If that's true,it is a metaphor for how you have to live.
Thank God and the primordial slime that positive outweighed the negative.
That's about it,and about what you have to do.
And I say that becau the world you live in for all of its joys has three problems not very much in evident here today.
It is too unstable,it is too unequal,and it is completely unsustainable.
So that if you want your children and grandchildren to be sitting on this lawn with their own inevitable choices of funky hats,you got to deal with tho three things,
and you gotta deal with them as an integral part of your life,not something that's over here that you think about sometimes,becau the three challenges,that's where your 99.5%to99.9%comes in.
It doesn't matter how smart you are,it doesn't matter how wealthy you grow,you're going to have to share that with everyone.
The world is too unequal.
Half the world's people live on less than$2.00a day,a billion on less than$1.00a day, a billion people have no access to clean water,a billion people go to bed hungry every night,two and a half billion people have no access to sanitation,one in four of all the people who die on planet earth this year will die of AIDS,tuberculosis,Malaria and infections related to dirty water.80%of them will be children under five.
Tho are the killers of the poor.
And there are no health networks out there for many of them.
I work with wonderful people from Yale,who just took a picture with me before I came in,and our Health Access Initiative in Ethiopia and Liberia,and Ethiopia,when we started,the country has80million people,58million live in villages of fewer than 1,000,60,000villages,there were700clinics in the whole country.
Now moving toward17,000.
We get17,000built,everybody will be within a day's walk of a health care.
The are things that we don't think about all the time,but the world is unequal.
You're sitting here getting a degree from one of the greatest universities in history, founded in1701.
There are more than100million children today that still never darkened a schoolhou door,and another100million who go to school but not really,becau they don't have trained teachers or adequate learning material.
When even one year of schooling in a poor country adds10%a year to learning capacity for life.
It's an unequal world within wealthy countries--most but not all,the world has grown more unequal.
The day before the financial meltdown,2/3of American families after inflation had lower incomes than they did the day I left office ven and a half years earlier.
Median family income dropped$2,000while the cost of health care doubled,the cost of college after inflation went up75%,and America fell from first to tenth in the world for the first time since World War II in the percentage of our young people25 to35that had four year degrees.
Now I think the Bill just pasd by Congress to cut the cost of student loans,the cost of repayment,and let all of you pay it back as a share of your income is a very
good start,becau that means people can graduate from college with a degree and still join Teach For America,still join the Peace Corps,still join Americorps,still go out into rural areas and rve people,or go halfway around the world.
This is a very good thing,but we have to face the fact that our own country grew more unequal.
The world is more unstable.
It's entirely too unstable.
We deal with the threat of terror in every country--in America,all the way from the first World Trade Center bombing in1993to this poor tragic Pakistani man who
got two degrees in America,got his citizenship,ud it to fly home to Waziristan and learn how to make a bomb and tried to t it off in Times Square.
Thank God he didn't learn his lesson very well,and people escaped unharmed.
But it shows you that when you tear down all the walls and you can break through all the barriers of information,that the same things that empower you to get access to more information more quickly than ever before,could empower you to build bombs. It's an unstable world.
The financial crisis started in America,pretty soon it's all over Europe,then it hurts Latin America and Asia.
Now you've got Greece,a very small part of the European union imperiling the whole enterpri of the common currency and spooking investors around the world in every place that has significant debt.
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We have to reduce the instability.
And the third thing we have to recognize is that becau of the way we produce and consume energy,the world you live in is totally unsustainable.
Oh,I know the climate change deniers got a little juice out of some stolen emails at the University of East Anglia,but an independent scientific panel just reviewed them and said they confirm what everybody knows--the world is warming at an unsustainable rate that's going to lead to radical variations in temperature.
When we had this huge snowfall in February,all on the East coast,all the way down to Florida,they opened the Olympics in Canada and it was so hot up there they
were afraid they wouldn't be able to start some of the outdoor winter sports.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just relead this week its finding that April was the hottest April ever recorded.
Clearly,we have to do something,and a lot of people are discouraged becau there was no agreement made in Copenhagen.
I'll come back to this,but the reason there was no agreement in Copenhagen is simple --unlike when Al Gore and I tried to take this issue on,now nearly everybody accepts the fact that climate change is real and caud by human activity and we gotta do something about it.
But many people still don't believe we can do what we need to do and still grow the economy.
When I was your age,a little younger,Martin Luther King ud to say,ud to quote the great French writer Victor Hugo,saying there's nothing so powerful as an
idea who time has come.
Today with regard to this climate change issue,we ought to say there's nothing more destructive than an idea who time has come and gone and people just won't give it up.
The truth is that if we change the way we produced and consumed energy in an intelligent way,it would do more than anything el we could do to reduce inequality,start an economic boom,stabilize our future,as well as deal with the sustainability issue.
It is the greatest opportunity this country has faced since we mobilized for World War II,and this time it can be entirely constructive.
[APPLAUSE]And I'm going to make this point a little more explicitly in a moment, but one problem we have in the modern world is we got access to more information than ever before,but we don't all listen to the same information.
America's a much more tolerant country today in most conventional ways.
It's not as racist as it ud to be,there's not the religious prejudices as ud to be,it's not as xist as it ud to be,it's not as homophobic as it ud to be--we're getting there.
The only place where we're bigoted now is we only want to be around people who agree with us.
You think about it.
And in our media habits,we go to the television stuff,we go to the radio talk shows, we go to the blog sites that agree with us.

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