奧巴馬2012勝選演講的影視音頻及中英文全文

Obama's Complete Victory Speech: Obama Wins the 2012 Election

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv9NwKAjmt0 

(點擊這個鏈接,但之前會有廣告或做蛋糕等小節目,但此演講的影視音頻很清晰!)

Thank you so much.

Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.

It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the spirit that has triumphed over war and depression, the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own individual dreams, we are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people.

Tonight, in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America the best is yet to come.

I want to thank every American who participated in this election, whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time. By the way, we have to fix that. Whether you pounded the pavement or picked up the phone, whether you held an Obama sign or a Romney sign, you made your voice heard and you made a difference.

I just spoke with Gov. Romney and I congratulated him and Paul Ryan on a hard-fought campaign. We may have battled fiercely, but it’s only because we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future. From George to Lenore to their son Mitt, the Romney family has chosen to give back to America through public service and that is the legacy that we honor and applaud tonight. In the weeks ahead, I also look forward to sitting down with Gov. Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward.

I want to thank my friend and partner of the last four years, America’s happy warrior, the best vice president anybody could ever hope for, Joe Biden.

And I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago. Let me say this publicly: Michelle, I have never loved you more. I have never been prouder to watch the rest of America fall in love with you, too, as our nation’s first lady. Sasha and Malia, before our very eyes you’re growing up to become two strong, smart beautiful young women, just like your mom. And I’m so proud of you guys. But I will say that for now one dog’s probably enough.

To the best campaign team and volunteers in the history of politics. The best. The best ever. Some of you were new this time around, and some of you have been at my side since the very beginning. But all of you are family. No matter what you do or where you go from here, you will carry the memory of the history we made together and you will have the lifelong appreciation of a grateful president. Thank you for believing all the way, through every hill, through every valley. You lifted me up the whole way and I will always be grateful for everything that you’ve done and all the incredible work that you put in.

I know that political campaigns can sometimes seem small, even silly. And that provides plenty of fodder for the cynics that tell us that politics is nothing more than a contest of egos or the domain of special interests. But if you ever get the chance to talk to folks who turned out at our rallies and crowded along a rope line in a high school gym, or saw folks working late in a campaign office in some tiny county far away from home, you’ll discover something else.

You’ll hear the determination in the voice of a young field organizer who’s working his way through college and wants to make sure every child has that same opportunity. You’ll hear the pride in the voice of a volunteer who’s going door to door because her brother was finally hired when the local auto plant added another shift. You’ll hear the deep patriotism in the voice of a military spouse who’s working the phones late at night to make sure that no one who fights for this country ever has to fight for a job or a roof over their head when they come home.

That’s why we do this. That’s what politics can be. That’s why elections matter. It’s not small, it’s big. It’s important. Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated. We have our own opinions. Each of us has deeply held beliefs. And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up controversy.

That won’t change after tonight, and it shouldn’t. These arguments we have are a mark of our liberty. 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, the chance to cast their ballots like we did today.

But despite all our differences, most of us share certain hopes for America’s future. We want our kids to grow up in a country where they have access to the best schools and the best teachers. A country that lives up to its legacy as the global leader in technology and discovery and innovation, with all the good jobs and new businesses that follow.

We want our children to live in an America that isn’t burdened by debt, that isn’t weakened by inequality, that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. 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. 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 being.

We believe in a generous America, in a compassionate America, in a tolerant America, open to the dreams of an immigrant’s daughter who studies in our schools and pledges to our flag. To the young boy on the south side of Chicago who sees a life beyond the nearest street corner. To the furniture worker’s child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president – that’s the future we hope for. That’s the vision we share. That’s where we need to go – forward. That’s where we need to go.

Now, we will disagree, sometimes fiercely, about how to get there. As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts. It’s not always a straight line. It’s not always a smooth path. By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won’t end all the gridlock or solve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward. But that common bond is where we must begin.

Our economy is recovering. A decade of war is ending. A long campaign is now over. And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you, and you’ve made me a better president. And 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.

Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming 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 our tax code. Fixing our immigration system. Freeing ourselves from foreign oil. We’ve got more work to do.

But that doesn’t mean your work is done. The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. America’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 self-government. That’s the principle we were founded on.

This country has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military in history, but that’s not what makes us strong. Our university, our culture are all the envy of the world, but that’s not what keeps the world coming to our shores.

What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth. The belief that our destiny is shared; that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations. The freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for come with responsibilities as well as rights. And among those are love and charity and duty and patriotism. That’s what makes America great.

I am hopeful tonight because I’ve seen the spirit at work in America. I’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 job. I’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.

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 community rebuild from the wreckage of a terrible storm. And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old 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 company was about to stop paying for her care.

I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And 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 own. And I know that every American wants her future to be just as bright. That’s who we are. That’s the country I’m so proud to lead as your president.

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. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I’m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight.

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

America, I believe we can build on the progress we’ve made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle class. I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.

I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

And together with your help and God’s grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

Thank you, America. God bless you. God bless these United States.

謝謝，非常感謝。今晚，是在一個殖民地贏得它自主權200多年之後，我們來到這裡，不斷前行，這主要是因為你們堅信這個國家能夠實現永恆的希望，實現移民想的夢想，我們是一個大家庭，我們共同以一個國家，一個民族奮鬥。

我要感謝每位參加這次選舉的人，不管你是從第一天就投票了，還是一直等待了很長的時間才投的票。當然了，我們要解決這個排隊投票的問題。不管你是自己上門投的票，還是打電話投的票，不管你是投了給我，還是投給羅姆尼，你的聲音都被大家聽到了，並且你對我們國家做出了某些改變，剛剛我跟羅姆尼通了電話，我祝賀他在這個艱難卓絕的戰役當中所取得的勝利。

我們這場戰役是十分激烈，但是這正是因為我們深愛着這個國家，並且我們十分在意他的未來。從羅姆尼整個家庭，孫子輩，孩子輩，整個家庭都獻給了美國，這種精神我們將永遠銘記。未來這幾周我也希望和羅姆尼一起來討論怎麼樣使我們的國家不斷前進。我要感謝我的朋友，我的搭檔，這是我四年來最好的搭檔，也是美國歷史上最好的副總統拜登，如果沒有他，今天我就不會站在這裡，如果沒有20年前跟我結婚的妻子，今天我就不會站在這裡。我要跟大家說，妻子，我比以前更加愛你，我更加自豪，因為我看到全國人民也十分熱愛你這位第一夫人，我感到十分自豪。

對我的女兒，兩位女兒，你們一天天在成長，你們成為了兩位向你們的媽媽一樣的淑女、美麗，有才華，我也為你們感到驕傲，但是目前我覺得給你們養一條寵物狗就夠了。我還要感謝我的競選團隊和志願者，他們是歷史上最棒的。他們是最好的，最棒的，而且是史上最棒的。有些人是第一次來聽我的演說，有些人四年前就聽了我的獲勝演說，但是每個人對我來講都是我的一分子，不管你做了什麼，不管你去了哪裡，你一定會記得我們今天晚上所創的歷史，你會一生都感激今天晚上的時刻，而且你們會一直記得有一個心懷感激的總統，我要感謝你們所做的每一件事情，正是因為有了你們，我才會一路堅持下來。我對此將永遠感謝，不管你做的什麼，你們所做的一切我都心懷感激，並且永遠鳴謝。

我知道這些政治的競選，可能有的時候看起來很愚蠢，而且我們也聽到很多人跟我們講政治有的時候十分愚蠢，可能他只是利益的追求和衝突，但是如果你們真的有機會去機會和競選活動上和人們談論一些問題，或者你看到一些競選團隊，非常辛勤工作的志願者們，你們的印象會有所改觀，因為你們能聽到這些年輕的組織者他們的決心，你能夠看到他們在面臨這個機會的時候，是有多大的決心。你還會聽到群眾，還有志願者，他們上門挨家挨戶的進行競選。你也會聽到我們深深的愛國情緒在針對的成員的愛國情緒，因為我們相信那些曾經為我們國家拋頭顱撒灑血的軍隊，他們不應該在工作上遇到任何問題，這就是為什麼我們要進行大選。

這並不是一件小事實，這是至關重要的事。舉足輕重的事，我們國家的民主，我們3億人民的民主的情緒可能十分複雜，可能十分混亂，每個人可能都有自己的觀點，每個人都有自己深深的信仰，但是在我們經過艱難時刻的時候，當我們做出艱難的抉擇時，我們很自然會有衝突，會有情感的表達。但是我認為它不應當影響我們今晚的表現，我們有的爭論是民主的象徵，而且我們不應當忘記在世界上很多別的國家，他們都正在為自由言論，自由討論民主這樣的權利所奮鬥，所努力。

儘管我們有許多不同，我們中的大部分對美國的未來都有共同的希望，我們希望我們的孩子能夠上最好的學校，接受最好的教育，我們希望整個國家能夠延續我們的遺產，促進科技的發展，就業的發展和商業的發展。我們希望孩子們不是負債纍纍，而是面對高質量的國家，他們不會受到恐怖力量的威脅。我們希望傳遞安全有尊嚴的國家，並且受別人尊重的國家，這個國家是由最強的軍事力量所定義，並且最安全定義的過程。與此同時我們也希望自己的國家，有信心，並且能夠不斷推動每個人的自由、繁榮和發展，我們相信美國的慷慨，美國的寬容、包容，美國的自由和開放，我們將伸開雙手迎接移民的美國人民，我們會歡迎他們的子孫後代來到美國。我們相信在芝加哥任何一個孩子都可以看到他的希望，在北卡州那些想要成為科學家和醫生的學生，想要成為工程師，甚至是總統的學生，這是我們共同要爭取的未來，這是我們共同分享的願景，這也是我們前進的方向。

我們有的時候會對於怎麼樣向前進有非常強烈的分歧，200年來，大家知道我們的進步一直不是直線的，也不是一帆風順，我們伴隨着很多分歧和不同，我們隨着有很好的希望和夢想，但是很多時候我們要付出艱苦卓絕的努力才可以達到目標，我們也需要進行妥協才可以使國家前進。但是我們的共識是我們的起點，現在經濟正處於復甦期間，我們的十年的戰爭也已經結束了，我們的競選也已經將告尾聲，不管我沒有當選，我聽到了你們的聲音，你們使我成為最好的。

今晚，你投給的不是政治，而是我們的行動。但是因為大家，我們才能關注你們的工作，而不是我們的工作，而在未來的幾個月當中，我會期待和我們兩黨的領導人一起來共同尋求那些我們只有共同努力才能解決的矛盾的問題，比如說我們的稅法，我們的移民，我們的工作，還有我們對進口石油的依賴這些問題，我都會尋求各種解決之道。但是這不意味着你們的工作就結束了，我們所有的公民，所有的同胞們，你們不是說投了票就輕鬆了你們的任務就沒有了，你們一定要問問自己，不是美國能為你們做什麼，而是我能為美國做什麼，我們要進行自我治理，自我約束，這是我們的原則，也是我們建國的理念。

我們這個國家是世界上最富有的國家，但是這並不是讓我們每個人更富有，雖然我們的軍隊十分強大，但是我們的個人並不強大，我們的大學、我們的文化，雖然是全球最優秀的，但是卻並不是說我們就是全球最優秀的。是因為我們是一個多民族的國家，多樣性的國家，但是在這樣多樣性的國家當中我們有共同的願景和共識，並且我們的子孫後代會給他們更多的公民和自由，我們的子女後代必將獲得更多的尊嚴，更多的愛護和尊敬。而且相信子孫後代只有他們正直，他們愛國，辛勤勞動才會使我們的美國變得更為強大。

我今天晚上充滿了希望，因為我看到我們這些美國勞動人民的精神，還看到了那些商業人士你們所做的工作，提供了很多工作機會，而且我還看到那些失業的人民得到了幫助，我看到戰士們，他們再次徵兵，而且我還看到戰士們他們仍然守衛着我們的國家，因為他們也知道我們在支持着他們。我還看到新澤西紐約每個政黨的領導人，都開始拋開他們的旗艦，來探討怎麼從桑迪中重建我們的家園。我們還看到俄亥俄州一個父親說他有一個八歲的女兒，她的肺病使他的家庭一貧如洗，他們之前並沒有得到醫療保障的保護，但是幾個月之前他開始得到了醫療保險，這對他們來講是非常好的消息。

我和這位父親，還有他的女兒都見面了，他對於群眾說，他對大家說，當他說的時候，在場所有的父母都落淚了，因為我們知道，他的女兒也可能是我們的女兒，我們都希望自己的孩子未來充滿光芒，這是每個父母的希望，這是我身為總統引以為豪的。今晚儘管我們經歷了這麼多的困難，儘管我們經歷了這麼多的挫折，我對於未來卻格外充滿希望，我對於未來格外充滿希望，對於美國格外充滿希望，我希望大家延續這種希望，我這裡講的並不是盲目的樂觀，指的是我們對未來的挑戰，忽視未來的挑戰，我也不是說的天真或者理想化的樂觀的情緒，我真正的希望，不管我們遇到多少的挫折，多少的困難，只有我們內心堅定的希望，才是我們保持不斷努力、不斷鬥爭，不斷勇往直前的力量來源。

我相信我們我們能在取得成就的基礎上取得新的機會，為美國的中產階級提供新的希望，我相信我們能夠繼續延續我們的建國者的承諾，不管你來自哪裡，不管你的膚色是什麼，不管你是黑人、白人，亞裔人，任何種族，不管你是同性戀還是非同性戀，不管你是貧困的還是富裕的，你可以在美國做你想做的一切，我們可以共同迎來這樣的未來，因為我們對未來是充滿了希望，我們有雄心壯志，我們贏得的不僅僅是這一個選舉，而且是一個未來，是美國的未來，我們會一起贏得這場戰役。而且上帝會引導我們走向這條道路，並且我們相信，我們會成為世界上最偉大的國家，謝謝你們，上帝保佑美國！