Thank you so much. I love being with mayors. It is great to be here -- although I did worry a little bit that Dennis Johnson would introduce me again. At the White House, he had the old Bulls theme song, and it set a very high bar, as if I was Michael Jordan coming out. And he is a great friend and I very much appreciate him, as I do so many of the mayors here. I saw a lot of you in Washington in January. I thought I had such a good time, let's meet this summer, as well. And this time, I thought I'd come to you. 非常感谢大家。我喜欢和市长们在一起。能来到这里真是太好了——虽然我确实有点担心丹尼斯·约翰逊会再次介绍我。在白宫时，他播放了老公牛队的主题曲，那可是相当高的规格，搞得我好像是迈克尔·乔丹出场似的。他是一位很好的朋友，我非常感激他，就像我感激在座的许多市长一样。一月份我在华盛顿见过你们很多人。我当时觉得太愉快了，干脆今年夏天再聚一次吧。而这次，我想我应该来找你们。
I want to thank our host, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. He was just in the White House for the San Francisco Giants' championship visit. I know how excited the Bay Area is over the Golden State Warriors' championship. 我要感谢我们的东道主，旧金山市长李孟贤。他刚刚因为旧金山巨人队夺冠到访白宫。我知道湾区对金州勇士队夺冠有多兴奋。
I want to thank two outstanding public servants -- Governor Jerry Brown and Leader Nancy Pelosi, who are here with us today. And I want to thank this year's leaders of the Conference of Mayors -- Kevin Johnson, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. 我要感谢两位杰出的公职人员——杰里·布朗州长和南希·佩洛西领袖，他们今天都在座。我还要感谢今年市长会议的领导人——凯文·约翰逊、巴尔的摩市长斯蒂芬妮·罗林斯-布莱克，以及俄克拉荷马城市长米克·科尼特。
I also want to mention a few outstanding mayors who are getting ready to step down. Michael Nutter of Philadelphia has done outstanding work. Greg Ballard of Indianapolis, an outstanding mayor, doing great work with My Brother's Keeper. Annise Parker of Houston. And my dear, old friend, Michael Coleman of Columbus, Ohio. 我还要提到几位即将卸任的杰出市长。费城市长迈克尔·纳特工作出色。印第安纳波利斯市长格雷格·巴拉德是一位杰出的市长，在"守护我的兄弟"项目中做了大量工作。休斯敦市长安妮斯·帕克。还有我亲爱的老朋友，俄亥俄州哥伦布市市长迈克尔·科尔曼。
And finally, a great mayor, one of my favorite people, and I know one of the people all of you admire so much -- a great mayor, Joe Riley of Charleston. Joe is back home doing one of a mayor's sadder, more important duties today. 最后，一位伟大的市长，我最欣赏的人之一，我知道也是你们所有人都非常敬佩的人——伟大的查尔斯顿市长乔·莱利。乔今天正在家乡履行市长更悲伤也更重要的职责之一。
Obviously, the entire country has been shocked and heartbroken by what happened in Charleston. The nature of this attack -- in a place of worship, where congregants invite in a stranger to worship with them, only to be gunned down -- adds to the pain. The apparent motivations of the shooter remind us that racism remains a blight that we have to combat together. We have made great progress, but we have to be vigilant because it still lingers. And when it's poisoning the minds of young people, it betrays our ideals and tears our democracy apart. 显然，整个国家都对查尔斯顿发生的事件感到震惊和心碎。这次袭击的性质——发生在礼拜场所，会众邀请陌生人一起礼拜，结果却遭枪杀——更增添了痛苦。枪手明显的动机提醒我们，种族主义仍是我们必须共同抗击的祸害。我们已经取得了巨大进步，但必须保持警惕，因为它仍然阴魂不散。当它毒害年轻人的思想时，就是在背叛我们的理想，撕裂我们的民主。
But as much as we grieve this particular tragedy, I think it's important, as I mentioned at the White House, to step back and recognize these tragedies have become far too commonplace. 但是，尽管我们为这一特定悲剧感到悲痛，我认为正如我在白宫所说的，重要的是退一步认识到，这类悲剧已经变得太过司空见惯。
Few people understand the terrible toll of gun violence like mayors do. Whether it's a mass shooting like the one in Charleston, or individual attacks of violence that add up over time, it tears at the fabric of a community. It costs you money and it costs resources. It costs this country dearly. 很少有人像市长们那样了解枪支暴力的可怕代价。无论是像查尔斯顿那样的大规模枪击事件，还是日积月累的个体暴力袭击，都在撕裂社区的肌理。它耗费你们的金钱，耗费你们的资源。它让这个国家付出了沉重的代价。
More than 11,000 Americans were killed by gun violence in 2013 alone -- 11,000. If Congress had passed some common-sense gun safety reforms after Newtown, after a group of children had been gunned down in their own classroom -- reforms that 90 percent of the American people supported -- we wouldn't have prevented every act of violence, or even most. We don't know if it would have prevented what happened in Charleston. No reform can guarantee the elimination of violence. 仅2013年一年，就有超过11000名美国人死于枪支暴力——11000人。如果国会在纽敦事件之后，在一群孩子在自己的教室里被枪杀之后，通过一些常识性的枪支安全改革——那些90%的美国人民都支持的改革——我们虽不能阻止每一起暴力事件，甚至不能阻止大多数。我们不知道这能否阻止查尔斯顿发生的一切。没有任何改革能保证消除暴力。
But we might still have some more Americans with us. We might have stopped one shooter. Some families might still be whole. You all might have to attend fewer funerals. 但我们本可以让更多美国人活在今天。我们本可以阻止一名枪手。一些家庭本可以依然完整。你们本可以少参加一些葬礼。
And we should be strong enough to acknowledge this. At the very least, we should be able to talk about this issue as citizens, without demonizing all gun owners who are overwhelmingly law-abiding, but also without suggesting that any debate about this involves a wild-eyed plot to take everybody's guns away. 我们应该有足够的勇气承认这一点。至少，我们应该能够作为公民来讨论这个问题，不要妖魔化绝大多数遵纪守法的枪支拥有者，但也不要暗示任何关于这个问题的辩论都是要没收所有人枪支的疯狂阴谋。
I know today's politics makes it less likely that we see any sort of serious gun safety legislation. I remarked that it was very unlikely that this Congress would act. And some reporters, I think, took this as resignation. I want to be clear -- I am not resigned. I have faith we will eventually do the right thing. I was simply making the point that we have to move public opinion. We have to feel a sense of urgency. 我知道，在当今的政治环境下，我们看到任何严肃枪支安全立法的可能性都更小了。我曾说过，这届国会采取行动的可能性微乎其微。我想，一些记者把这当成了听天由命。我要澄清——我没有听天由命。我相信我们最终会做正确的事。我只是在说明一个观点：我们必须推动公众舆论。我们必须有一种紧迫感。
Ultimately, Congress will follow the people. And we have to stop being confused about this. At some point, as a country, we have to reckon with what happens. It is not good enough simply to show sympathy. 归根结底，国会会跟随人民的意愿。我们不能再对此抱有幻想。在某个时刻，作为一个国家，我们必须正视正在发生的一切。仅仅表示同情是不够的。
You don't see murder on this kind of scale, with this kind of frequency, in any other advanced nation on Earth. Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns. And so I refuse to act as if this is the new normal, or to pretend that it's simply sufficient to grieve, and that any mention of us doing something to stop is somehow politicizing the problem. 在地球上任何其他发达国家，你都看不到这种规模、这种频率的谋杀。每个国家都有暴力的、充满仇恨的或精神不稳定的人。不同之处在于，不是每个国家都充斥着唾手可得的枪支。因此，我拒绝假装这是新常态，也拒绝假装仅仅哀悼就足够了，更拒绝认为我们提出要采取行动阻止悲剧就是在将问题政治化。
We need a change in attitudes among everybody -- lawful gun owners, those who are unfamiliar with guns. We have to have a conversation about it and fix this. 我们需要每个人都改变态度——合法持枪者、不熟悉枪支的人。我们必须就此展开对话并解决问题。
And ultimately, Congress acts when the public insists on action. And we've seen how public opinion can change. We've seen it change on gay marriage. We've seen it beginning to change on climate change. We've got to shift how we think about this issue. And we have the capacity to change, but we have to feel a sense of urgency about it. We, as a people, have got to change. That's how we honor those families. That's how we honor the families in Newtown. That's how we honor the families in Aurora. 归根结底，当公众坚持要求采取行动时，国会就会行动。我们已经看到了公众舆论是如何改变的。我们看到了它在同性婚姻问题上的改变。我们看到了它在气候变化问题上开始改变。我们必须转变我们对这个问题的思考方式。我们有能力改变，但我们必须对此有一种紧迫感。我们作为一个民族，必须改变。这才是我们纪念那些家庭的方式。这才是我们纪念纽敦那些家庭的方式。这才是我们纪念奥罗拉那些家庭的方式。
Now, the first time I spoke at this conference, in 2008, I said that American cities shouldn't be succeeding despite Washington, they should be succeeding with some help from Washington. 我第一次在这个会议上发言是在2008年，当时我说，美国城市不应该在没有华盛顿帮助的情况下独自取得成功，而应该在华盛顿的帮助下取得成功。
And as President, I've made it a priority to partner with mayors like you. That's why I've named three former mayors to my Cabinet. That's why I asked a former president of this conference, Jerry Abramson, to be one of my top advisors. That's why my staff and I work with mayors across the country just about every day, on just about every issue under the sun -- from school reform to community policing, from business development to veterans homelessness. 作为总统，我把与你们这样的市长合作作为优先事项。这就是为什么我任命了三位前市长进入我的内阁。这就是为什么我邀请这个会议的前主席杰里·艾布拉姆森担任我的高级顾问之一。这就是为什么我和我的团队几乎每天都与全国各地的市长合作，处理几乎所有可以想到的问题——从学校改革到社区警务，从商业发展到退伍军人无家可归问题。
Because mayors have to get the job done. If you're a mayor, it's not sufficient to just blather on. You actually have to do something. It's not enough to figure out how do I position myself on a particular issue to minimize the possibility that I might get in trouble or criticized -- because people expect to trim the trees and pave the roads, and pick up the garbage, and educate our kids, and police our streets. 因为市长们必须把事情做成。如果你是一名市长，光夸夸其谈是不够的。你必须真正做点什么。光是想办法在某个问题上给自己定位，尽量减少惹麻烦或挨批评的可能性，这是不够的——因为人们期望你修剪树木、铺设道路、清理垃圾、教育孩子、维持治安。
Whatever the problem, large or small, you got to do everything you can to solve it. You don't let partisanship stop you. You don't let cynicism stop you. You're always in the hunt for good ideas, no matter where they come from. 无论问题大小，你都必须尽一切努力去解决。你不会让党派之见阻止你。你不会让犬儒主义阻止你。你总是在寻找好主意，无论它们来自何方。
And I'm going to embarrass Jerry for a second. He took his wife, Madeline, to Paris a few years after they got married. And she took in all the splendor of the Champs-Élysées. And he took photos of garbage cans. That's a mayor for you. So she teased him about it. She said, there's the Eiffel Tower. There's the Seine. And he said, "Those are some beautiful garbage cans." And soon enough, downtown Louisville had garbage cans that looked a lot like the Parisian garbage cans. 我要让杰里难为情一下。他结婚几年后带妻子玛德琳去了巴黎。她陶醉于香榭丽舍大街的壮丽景色。而他却在拍垃圾桶。这就是市长本色。所以她取笑他。她说，那是埃菲尔铁塔。那是塞纳河。然后他说，"那些垃圾桶真漂亮。"很快，路易斯维尔市中心就有了和巴黎垃圾桶非常相像的垃圾桶。
That's a mayor, right there. Somebody who's always thinking about how to make his or her city better -- even on vacation in Paris -- and stops at nothing to get it done. 这就是市长，就是这样的人。一个总是在思考如何让自己的城市变得更好的人——哪怕是在巴黎度假——并且会不遗余力地去实现。
Now, as President, I'm constantly thinking about how we, together, can keep growing the economy and growing new pathways of opportunity for the American people to get ahead. And across the country, the good news is we're making progress. And you're seeing it in your cities. More than 12 million new private sector jobs in the past five years; more than 16 million Americans who've gained health insurance; more jobs creating more clean energy. 现在，作为总统，我一直在思考我们如何能够共同继续发展经济，为美国人民开辟更多的机遇之路，让他们出人头地。在全国范围内，好消息是我们正在取得进展。你们在自己的城市里也看到了。过去五年创造了1200多万个私营部门新岗位；1600多万美国人获得了医疗保险；更多的工作岗位创造了更多的清洁能源。
Here in California, solar is going crazy. We're producing 10 times as much solar power today as we did when I came into office -- 10 times; three times as much wind power; double the amount of clean energy. More kids graduating from high school and college than ever before. 在加州这里，太阳能发展得如火如荼。我们现在的太阳能发电量是我上任时的十倍——十倍；风能发电量是那时的三倍；清洁能源总量翻了一番。从高中毕业和大学毕业的孩子比以往任何时候都多。
I'm proud of that record. And by the way we've done it while reducing the deficit by two-thirds. You don't hear that that much, but let me just point that out. And I'm proud of it particularly when it's so hard to get anything through Congress -- even when we're talking about issues that most Americans outside of Washington agree on. 我为这一记录感到自豪。顺便说一句，我们在实现这一切的同时还将赤字减少了三分之二。你们很少听到这件事，但请允许我提一下。我特别为此感到自豪，尤其是在让国会通过任何事情都如此困难的情况下——哪怕我们讨论的是华盛顿之外大多数美国人都认同的问题。
But that's also why we've partnered with many of you over the past couple of years -- to make real progress on the economic priorities that matter to middle-class Americans. We're working with many of you to help working families make ends meet and feel more secure in a changing economy. So far, 19 cities have enacted paid sick days; five states have enacted paid sick days or paid family leave. Oregon is set to join them soon. Seventeen states have raised their minimum wage; 27 cities and counties have taken action to raise the wage, as well. 但这也是为什么过去几年我们与你们中的许多人展开了合作——在中产阶级美国人关心的经济优先事项上取得切实进展。我们正与你们中的许多人合作，帮助工薪家庭维持生计，在不断变化的经济中获得更多安全感。到目前为止，已有19个城市颁布了带薪病假规定；五个州颁布了带薪病假或带薪家事假。俄勒冈州也即将加入。十七个州提高了最低工资；27个城市和县也采取了提高工资的行动。
We're working with many of you to help working families earn higher wages down the road with skills and education they need. Seattle, a city with a Democratic mayor, Ed Murray, just passed universal pre-K. Indianapolis, a city with a Republican mayor, Greg Ballard, is starting citywide preschool scholarships. Thirty-four states have increased funding for preschool as well, which means even more young people getting the early enrichment that can pay off over a lifetime. 我们正与你们中的许多人合作，通过所需的技能和教育，帮助工薪家庭在未来获得更高的收入。西雅图——一个由民主党市长埃德·默里领导的城市——刚刚通过了全民学前教育。印第安纳波利斯——一个由共和党市长格雷格·巴拉德领导的城市——正在启动全市学前教育奖学金计划。三十四个州也增加了学前教育拨款，这意味着更多年轻人将获得能够带来终身回报的早期教育。
Three months ago, I launched an initiative called TechHire to help train workers for the high-skill, high-wage jobs of tomorrow. Twenty-one communities have signed up for TechHire so far, and we're looking to double that number. So if your town has tech jobs that need filling to people who want to fill them, come join us. 三个月前，我发起了一项名为"科技雇佣"的倡议，帮助工人接受培训，从事未来的高技能、高工资工作。到目前为止，已有21个社区加入了"科技雇佣"计划，我们希望这个数字能翻一番。所以，如果你们城市有技术岗位空缺，而有人想要填补这些岗位，就来加入我们吧。
We're working with many of you to generate more high-wage jobs for our workers to fill. Eleven cities have joined a new initiative called "Startup in a Day" to help entrepreneurs apply for all the licenses and permits they need to start a business in just one day. Cut the red tape. 我们正与你们中的许多人合作，为我们的工人创造更多高收入的就业机会。11个城市加入了一项名为"一日创业"的新倡议，帮助企业家在短短一天内申请到创办企业所需的所有执照和许可。减少繁文缛节。
We're working with cities to create a network of high-tech manufacturing hubs to keep America at the forefront of innovation. The first hub in Youngstown, Ohio is doing cutting-edge research in 3-D printing and has already attracted tens of millions of dollars in investment to the region. 我们正与各城市合作，创建一个高科技制造业中心网络，让美国保持在创新的前沿。俄亥俄州扬斯敦的第一个中心正在进行3D打印的前沿研究，并且已经为该地区吸引了数千万美元的投资。
So we're creating jobs, we're training folks for jobs. We're also working with many of you to make our streets safer and our communities stronger. More than 230 local and tribal leaders have joined the My Brother's Keeper initiative, and are taking meaningful steps to change the odds for young people in tough circumstances. Together, you're working to curb juvenile arrests, reduce absenteeism -- and you're helping these kids imagine a bigger future for themselves. 所以我们在创造就业，我们在培训人们就业。我们还在与你们中的许多人合作，让我们的街道更安全，让我们的社区更强大。230多名地方和部落领袖加入了"守护我的兄弟"倡议，并正在采取有意义的措施来改变困境中年轻人的命运。你们共同致力于减少青少年逮捕、降低缺勤率——你们正在帮助这些孩子为自己想象一个更广阔的未来。
Today, at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab just down the road, more than 100 students from Oakland and San Francisco are participating in the first "MBK Day at the Lab," where they can learn about STEM careers. 今天，就在路那头的劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室，来自奥克兰和旧金山的100多名学生正在参加首届"实验室MBK日"活动，在那里他们可以了解STEM（科学、技术、工程、数学）领域的职业。
And meanwhile, from police holding impromptu town hall meetings in barbershops in Charlotte, to the Boston Police Academy improving how it trains cops to deal with young people on the job, cities like yours are striving to rebuild trust between law enforcement and communities, making sure police have the resources they need to do their job. 与此同时，从夏洛特警方在理发店举行临时市政厅会议，到波士顿警察学院改进培训警察在工作中与年轻人打交道的方式，像你们这样的城市正在努力重建执法部门与社区之间的信任，确保警察拥有完成工作所需的资源。
And making sure that every police officer who has an incredibly tough job is trained in making the kinds of connections with communities that engender trust and ensure that everybody is treated equally under the law -- which makes for smart law enforcement and vindicates our values. 并确保每一位肩负着极其艰巨工作的警察，都接受过如何与社区建立联系的培训，这种联系能够增进信任，确保每个人在法律面前受到平等对待——这才是明智的执法，也印证了我们的价值观。
So these are just a few of the examples of the work that's being done. And I'd name every single way that we're working together to open new doors of opportunity for the American people, but we'd be here all day. So here's the bottom line. 这些只是正在开展的工作中的几个例子。我本可以一一列举我们共同努力为美国人民打开机遇之门的所有方式，但那样我们就得在这里待上一整天。所以总而言之：
On America's most important economic priorities -- from supporting working families to improving education, to creating good new jobs, to getting people to those new jobs, to improving affordable housing, to dealing with homelessness -- cities are not standing still. You are moving forward. So I want to say two things to you. Number one -- thank you. Thank you for your leadership and your vision. 在美国最重要的经济优先事项上——从扶持工薪家庭到改善教育，从创造优质新就业岗位到帮助人们胜任这些新岗位，从改善经济适用房到解决无家可归问题——城市没有停滞不前。你们在不断前进。所以我想对你们说两点。第一——谢谢你们。感谢你们的领导和远见。
And I particularly want to thank you because more than just about any other office in the land, those who occupy the office of mayor, are approaching it in a practical way. Democrats aren't clinging to dogmas, and are partnering with businesses anywhere they can. And Republicans aren't clinging to their dogmas; they're recognizing that government has a role to play in helping make for a vibrant city and expanding opportunity. 我尤其要感谢你们，因为几乎比国内任何其他职位都更甚的是，担任市长一职的人都在以务实的态度行事。民主党人没有死守教条，而是在任何可能的地方与企业合作。共和党人也没有死守教条；他们认识到，政府在帮助打造充满活力的城市和扩大机遇方面可以发挥作用。
And that common-sense, problem-solving, can-do attitude -- that's what the American people are looking for. That's what they need. So I want to say thank you to all of you. You're setting a good example. 而这种务实、解决问题、敢作敢为的态度——正是美国人民所寻找的。这正是他们所需要的。所以我要感谢你们所有人。你们树立了很好的榜样。
Now, second, I also want to say don't stop now, because we've still got a lot more work to do. We've got to keep pushing to grow our economy so that more Americans who work hard feel like their hard work is paying off -- which is why I'm working with Congress to pass new 21st century trade agreements with higher standards and tougher protections than past agreements. 现在，第二点，我还要说，不要就此止步，因为我们还有更多的工作要做。我们必须继续推动经济增长，让更多努力工作的美国人觉得他们的辛勤工作得到了回报——这就是为什么我正在与国会合作，通过新的21世纪贸易协定，这些协定比过去的协定有更高的标准和更严格的保护。
And I appreciate the help of many of the mayors here to get that done, because you know it's important to your cities. I believe it's the right thing to do for American workers and families, or I would not be doing it. I want to thank all of you who helped me make that case, that this matters to your cities. 我感谢在座许多市长在这方面提供的帮助，因为你们知道这对你们的城市很重要。我相信这对美国工人和美国家庭来说是正确的选择，否则我不会这么做。我要感谢你们所有人帮助我阐明这一点，即这关系到你们的城市。
We've got to keep pushing to put people to work rebuilding our infrastructure. There's not a mayor here who can't reel off 10 infrastructure projects right now that you'd love to get funding for, and that would put people to work right away and improve your competitiveness, and help businesses move their products and help people get to their jobs. We can keep paying the costs of patching over our existing infrastructure -- more expensive, less efficient, leading to higher commute times, more waste. That's an option. 我们必须继续推动让人们参与重建基础设施。在座的每一位市长都能随口说出十个你们想要获得资金的基础设施项目，这些项目能立即让人们就业，提高你们的竞争力，帮助企业运输产品，帮助人们上班通勤。我们可以继续为修补现有基础设施付出代价——更昂贵、更低效、导致通勤时间更长、浪费更多。这是一种选择。
Or we can create tens of thousands of jobs right now building a 21st century infrastructure that makes us competitive well into the 21st century. That's what we need to do. We just got to convince Congress to make it happen. And I need mayors to help, from all across the country. Put some pressure on Congress to get this done. 或者，我们可以立即创造数万个就业机会，建设21世纪的基础设施，让我们在21世纪保持竞争力。这才是我们需要做的。我们只需要说服国会实现这一目标。我需要来自全国各地的市长们提供帮助。向国会施加压力，推动这件事。
We've got to keep pushing to prepare for the impacts of climate change -- because it's science. It's a fact. It's like gravity. 我们必须继续推动做好应对气候变化影响的准备——因为这是科学。这是事实。就像重力一样。
Audience Member: Yes, it is. 听众：没错。
President Obama: It is. 奥巴马总统：没错。
A lot of cities have gone far ahead of states on this issue -- along with states. You're making a difference right now. You're not waiting for Congress. Mayor Roy Buol is here from Dubuque, Iowa. They've set a target to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent from 2003 levels by the end of the next decade. Just met with Governor Jerry Brown. He's talking about how California, which so often has been a leader on environmental issues, is looking to partner and make a difference internationally. 许多城市在这个问题上已经走在了各州的前面——与各州一起。你们现在就在产生影响。你们没有等待国会。爱荷华州迪比克市的罗伊·布尔市长今天在座。他们设定了一个目标，到下一个十年末，将温室气体排放量从2003年的水平减少50%。我刚和杰里·布朗州长见过面。他正在谈论加州——这个在环境问题上经常处于领先地位的州——如何寻求在国际上开展合作并发挥作用。
Today, my administration proposed new fuel standards for buses and tractor-trailers and other heavy-duty vehicles -- another important step towards reducing harmful carbon pollution and protecting our planet. 今天，我的政府提出了针对公共汽车、牵引挂车和其他重型车辆的新燃油标准——这是朝着减少有害碳污染和保护我们的星球迈出的又一重要一步。
But a lot of this does come down to Congress. I know many of you are worried about Congress cutting programs that are important to your city's economic growth. But the battle we should be having with Congress isn't just about individual programs. It's about the foolish, self-destructive cuts that in Washington are known as the sequester -- because with the sequester, the whole pie is smaller, so protecting one program means cutting another one. 但很多事情最终还是要靠国会。我知道你们中的许多人担心国会削减对你们城市经济增长至关重要的项目。但我们与国会之间的斗争不应该只是关于个别项目。而是关于华盛顿所谓的"自动减赤"——那些愚蠢的、自我毁灭的削减——因为有了减赤，整个蛋糕变小了，所以保住一个项目就意味着削减另一个项目。
That's why you're facing cuts that don't make any sense to things like TIGER grants, which you all know are so important to putting our people to work rebuilding our infrastructure. That's the reason why it's so hard for us to get the funding we need to get homeless assistance grants, which help some of our most vulnerable neighbors and get them off the streets. That's why it's been so difficult to fund the preschool development grants, which help educate our children -- which we know if we make that investment will pay off for your cities, your states, and for our country. 这就是为什么你们在TIGER（交通投资促经济复苏）拨款等项目上面临毫无道理的削减，你们都知道这些拨款对让人们就业重建基础设施有多么重要。这就是为什么我们很难获得所需的资金来提供无家可归者援助拨款，帮助我们最脆弱的邻居，让他们摆脱街头生活。这就是为什么为学前教育发展拨款提供资金一直如此困难，这些拨款帮助教育我们的孩子——我们知道，如果我们做出这项投资，将为你们的城市、你们的州和我们的国家带来回报。
I've been clear, I will not sign bills at sequestration levels. I will not sign bills that seek to increase defense spending before addressing any of our needs here at home. 我已经明确表示，我不会签署维持减赤水平的法案。我不会签署那些在解决国内需求之前就试图增加国防开支的法案。
And I need your help. I need your help, Mayors, to talk to your members of Congress to get rid of the sequester once and for all -- because it is harming our cities and harming our country. There is no business -- no successful business -- that if it needed to reduce spending, would simply lop off 10 percent of everything. Or 15 percent of everything. 我需要你们的帮助。市长们，我需要你们帮助，去和你们的国会议员谈谈，一劳永逸地取消自动减赤——因为它正在伤害我们的城市，伤害我们的国家。没有任何一家企业——任何一家成功的企业——会在需要削减开支时，干脆把所有开支都削减10%。或者削减15%。
That's not how any of us would run our household budget. You'd cut out things you don't need, but you'd still keep the college fund going. You'd still pay your health insurance bill and your mortgage note. There are things we have to do as a country to stay ahead. 我们谁都不会这样管理家庭预算。你会砍掉不需要的东西，但你会继续存大学基金。你会继续支付健康保险账单和抵押贷款。作为一个国家，有些事情我们必须做才能保持领先。
Once again, mayors understand that if there's a conflict between ideology and reality, you should opt for reality. Reality is a stubborn thing -- facts, evidence, reason. 市长们再一次明白，如果意识形态与现实发生冲突，你应该选择现实。现实是顽固的——事实、证据、理性。
So, thanks for your partnership. I want you to know that as long as I'm in the White House, I've got your back. I love the country, I love the suburbs, but I'm a city guy. And I know that when cities thrive, suburbs thrive. And when cities thrive, farmlands thrive. And when cities thrive, states thrive. And when cities thrive, America thrives. 所以，感谢你们的合作。我想让你们知道，只要我还在白宫，我就支持你们。我爱乡村，我爱郊区，但我是一个城市人。我知道，城市繁荣了，郊区就会繁荣。城市繁荣了，农田就会繁荣。城市繁荣了，各州就会繁荣。城市繁荣了，美国就会繁荣。
You guys are making it happen. I enjoy working with each and every one of you. And I know that each of you takes pride in what makes your hometown unique. 是你们在让这一切成为现实。我很高兴与你们每一个人合作。我知道你们每个人都为自己家乡的独特之处感到自豪。
You may be proud of your pizza, or your hoagies, or your barbeque -- even though everybody knows Chicago has the best pizza. You may be proud of your city's victory parades, even though we got a Blackhawk parade that's pretty good. I'm sure you're all very proud of your parks. We've got nice parks. Or the number of sunny days you've got -- which we enjoy half the year. Chances are you've got a few superlatives ready in case somebody asks, "What makes your city so special?" That's what mayors do. You're boosters. 你可能为你的披萨、你的英雄三明治、你的烧烤感到自豪——尽管人人都知道芝加哥的披萨最好。你可能为你城市的胜利游行感到自豪，尽管我们有黑鹰队的游行，那可是相当棒的。我相信你们都为你们的公园感到自豪。我们的公园也不错。或者是你们拥有的晴天数量——我们半年都能享受晴天。很有可能，当有人问"你的城市有什么特别之处"时，你已经准备好了几个"之最"的答案。这就是市长的本色。你们都是城市的宣传员。
Yet as unique as your cities are, as proud as you should be of your cities, we always remind ourselves we're also Americans. And we all want America to be a place where our zip code does not determine our destiny -- where every kid, in whatever city, whatever hamlet, whatever town, has an equal shot at life when they grow up. No matter who you are or where you come from, you can make it if you try. 然而，尽管你们的城市各有特色，尽管你们理应以自己的城市为荣，我们始终提醒自己，我们也是美国人。我们都希望美国成为这样一个地方：我们的邮政编码不能决定我们的命运——在那里，每个孩子，无论在哪个城市、哪个村庄、哪个小镇，长大后都有平等的人生机会。无论你是谁，无论你来自哪里，只要努力就能成功。
That's what America is about. That's what you're fighting for every day. And I'm going to fight right there alongside with you. Thank you, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. 这就是美国的真谛。这就是你们每天为之奋斗的目标。而我将与你们并肩作战。谢谢大家。上帝保佑你们。上帝保佑美国。
