PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Good morning, everybody. In times of great challenge in our country and around the world, Americans have always come together to lend a hand and to serve others and to do what's right. That's what the American people have been doing in recent days with their extraordinary generosity and contributions to the Haitian people. 奥巴马总统：早上好，各位。在我国和世界面临巨大挑战的时刻，美国人总是团结起来伸出援手，服务他人，做正确的事情。这正是美国人民近日来以极大的慷慨和对海地人民的捐助所做的。
At this moment, we're moving forward with one of the largest relief efforts in our history -- to save lives and to deliver relief that averts an even larger catastrophe. The two leaders with me today will ensure that this is matched by a historic effort that extends beyond our government, because America has no greater resource than the strength and the compassion of the American people. 此刻，我们正在推进我国历史上规模最大的救援行动之一——拯救生命，提供救援，以避免更大的灾难。今天与我同在的两位领导人将确保这项行动之外还有同样历史性的努力相配合，因为美国最伟大的资源就是美国人民的力量与同情心。
We just met in the Oval Office -- an office they both know well. And I'm pleased that President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton have agreed to lead a major fundraising effort for relief: the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. On behalf of the American people, I want to thank both of you for returning to service and leading this urgent mission. 我们刚才在椭圆形办公室会面——那是他们两位都非常熟悉的办公室。我感到高兴的是，乔治·W·布什总统和比尔·克林顿总统已同意领导一项重大的筹款救援行动：克林顿·布什海地基金。我代表美国人民，感谢两位重返公共服务，领导这一紧迫使命。
This is a model that works. After the terrible tsunami in Asia, President Bush turned to President Clinton and the first President Bush to lead a similar fund. That effort raised substantial resources for the victims of that disaster -- money that helped save lives, deliver aid, and rebuild communities. And that's exactly what the people of Haiti desperately need right now. 这是一种行之有效的模式。在亚洲发生可怕的海啸之后，布什总统曾请克林顿总统和老布什总统领导过类似的基金。那次行动为灾难受害者筹集了大量资源——这些资金帮助拯救生命、运送救援物资、重建社区。而这正是海地人民此刻迫切需要的。
Every day that goes by, we learn more about the horrifying scope of this catastrophe -- destruction and suffering that defies comprehension. Entire communities buried under mountains of concrete. Families sleeping in the streets. Injured desperate for care. Many thousands feared dead. That's why thousands of American personnel -- civilian and military -- are on the scene working to distribute clean drinking water and food and medicine, and thousands of tons of emergency food supplies are arriving every day. 随着时间的推移，我们每天都会了解到这场灾难的可怕程度——破坏与苦难令人难以想象。整个社区被埋在混凝土山下。家庭露宿街头。伤者急求医疗照护。数以千计的人恐已遇难。因此，数千名美国人员——文职和军事人员——正在现场分发清洁饮用水、食物和药品，每天还有数千吨紧急食品物资运抵。
It will be difficult. It is an enormous challenge to distribute this aid quickly and safely in a place that has suffered such destruction. That's what we're focused on now -- working closely with our partners: the Haitian government, the United Nations, and many organizations and nations -- friends from Argentina and France, from Dominican Republic and Brazil, and countries all around the world. 这将是一项艰巨的工作。在一个遭受如此破坏的地方，迅速而安全地分发援助物资是一项巨大的挑战。这正是我们目前所专注的——与我们的伙伴密切合作：海地政府、联合国以及许多组织和许多国家——来自阿根廷和法国、多米尼加共和国和巴西等世界各国的朋友。
And Secretary Hillary Clinton will be in Haiti today to meet with President Préval and continue our close coordination with his government. But we also know that our longer-term effort will not be measured in days and weeks; it will be measured in months and even years. And that's why it's so important to enlist and sustain the support of the American people. That's why it's so important to have a point of coordination for all the support that extends beyond our government. 希拉里·克林顿国务卿今日将前往海地，与普雷瓦尔总统会面，继续我们与其政府的密切协调。但我们也知道，我们长期的努力不会以天数和周数来衡量，而将以月乃至年来衡量。正因如此，争取并维持美国人民的支持至关重要。正因如此，为政府之外的所有支持设立一个协调中心至关重要。
Here at home, Presidents Bush and Clinton will help the American people to do their part, because responding to a disaster must be the work of all of us. Indeed, those wrenching scenes of devastation remind us not only of our common humanity but also of our common responsibilities. This time of suffering can and must be a time of compassion. 在国内，布什总统和克林顿总统将帮助美国人民尽自己的一份力，因为应对灾难必须是我们所有人的工作。确实，那些令人心碎的灾后场景不仅提醒我们共有的人性，也提醒我们共同的责任。这一苦难时刻能够、也必须成为展现同情心的时刻。
As the scope of the destruction became apparent, I spoke to each of these gentlemen, and they each asked the same simple question: How can I help? In the days ahead they'll be asking everyone what they can do -- individuals, corporations, NGOs, and institutions. And I urge everyone who wants to help to visit www.clintonbushhaitifund.org. 随着破坏规模逐渐显现，我与两位先生分别交谈过，他们都问了同样一个简单的问题：我能帮什么忙？在未来的日子里，他们将会询问每一个人能做些什么——个人、企业、非政府组织和机构。我敦促所有愿意提供帮助的人访问 www.clintonbushhaitifund.org。
We're fortunate to have the service of these two leaders. President Bush led America's response to the Asian tsunami, aid and relief that prevented even greater loss of life in the months after that disaster. And his administration's efforts to fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa treated more than 10 million men, women, and children. 我们很幸运能得到这两位领导人的协助。布什总统曾领导美国应对亚洲海啸，其援助和救济工作在那次灾难后的数月里避免了更大的生命损失。他执政期间抗击非洲艾滋病的工作，使超过一千万名男女和儿童得到治疗。
As President, Bill Clinton helped restore democracy in Haiti. As a private citizen, he has helped to save the lives of millions of people around the world. And as the United Nations special envoy to Haiti, he understands intimately the daily struggles and needs of the Haitian people. 克林顿总统任内曾帮助海地恢复民主。作为普通公民，他帮助拯救了全球数百万人的生命。作为联合国海地特使，他深切了解海地人民日常的挣扎和需要。
And by coming together in this way, these two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and to the people of the world: In these difficult hours, America stands united. We stand united with the people of Haiti, who have shown such incredible resilience, and we will help them to recover and to rebuild. 通过这种方式携手合作，这两位领导人向海地人民和全世界人民发出了一个明确无误的信号：在这些艰难的时刻，美国团结一致。我们与展现出非凡坚韧的海地人民团结一致，我们将帮助他们恢复和重建。
Yesterday we witnessed a small but remarkable display of that determination -- some of you may have seen it -- Haitians with little more than the clothes on their back marched peacefully through a ruined neighborhood, and despite all their loss and all their suffering they sang songs of faith and songs of hope. 昨天，我们目睹了那种决心的一次微小却令人难忘的展示——你们中可能有人看到——海地人几乎只带着身上的衣物，在一个废墟中的街区和平行进，尽管承受着所有的失去和所有的苦难，他们仍然唱着信仰之歌和希望之歌。
These are the people we're called upon to help. Those are the hopes that we're committed to answering. That's why the three of us are standing together today. And with that, I would invite each President to say a few words. I'm going to start with President Bush. 这些就是我们被召唤去帮助的人民。那些就是我们承诺回应的希望。这就是今天我们三人站在一起的原因。接下来，我想请两位总统各讲几句话。我先请布什总统发言。
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I join President Obama in expressing my sympathy for the people of Haiti. I commend the President for his swift and timely response to the disaster. I am so pleased to answer the call to work alongside President Clinton to mobilize the compassion of the American people. 乔治·W·布什总统：我加入奥巴马总统的行列，向海地人民表达我的同情。我赞赏总统对这场灾难作出的迅速而及时的回应。我非常高兴能应召与克林顿总统并肩工作，调动美国人民的同情心。
Like most Americans, Laura and I have been following the television coverage from Haiti. Our hearts are broken when we see the scenes of little children struggling without a mom or a dad, or the bodies in the streets or the physical damage of the earthquake. 像大多数美国人一样，劳拉和我一直在关注海地的电视报道。当我们看到孩子们在没有父母照料下挣扎、街头横陈的尸体以及地震造成的物质破坏时，我们的心碎了。
The challenges down there are immense, but there's a lot of devoted people leading the relief effort, from government personnel who deployed into the disaster zone to the faith-based groups that have made Haiti a calling. 那里的挑战是巨大的，但有大量奉献的人在领导救援工作，从部署到灾区的政府人员，到将海地视为使命的宗教团体。
The most effective way for Americans to help the people of Haiti is to contribute money. That money will go to organizations on the ground and will be -- who will be able to effectively spend it. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water -- just send your cash. One of the things that the President and I will do is to make sure your money is spent wisely. As President Obama said, you can look us up on clintonbushhaitifund.org. 美国人帮助海地人民最有效的方式是捐款。这些钱将交给当地的组织，他们能够有效地使用这些资金。我知道很多人想送毯子或水——只送现金就好。总统和我将做的一件事就是确保你们的钱被明智地使用。正如奥巴马总统所说，你们可以在 clintonbushhaitifund.org 上找到我们。
The Haitian people have got a tough journey, yet it's amazing how terrible tragedies can bring out the best of the human spirit. We've all seen that firsthand when American citizens responded to the tsunami or to Katrina or to the earthquake in Pakistan. And President Clinton and I are going to work to tap that same spirit of giving to help our brothers and sisters in the Caribbean. 海地人民前方是一段艰难的旅程，但可怕悲剧能够激发人类精神中最美好的一面，这实在令人惊叹。当美国人民回应海啸、卡特里娜风灾或巴基斯坦地震时，我们都曾亲眼目睹这一点。克林顿总统和我将努力激发同样的奉献精神，以帮助我们在加勒比海的兄弟姐妹。
Toward the end of my presidency, Laura made a trip down to Haiti to look at the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief programs down there. I remember clearly her coming back and telling me about the energy and optimism of the people of Haiti. There's just an unbelievable spirit amongst the Haitian people. And while that earthquake destroyed a lot, it didn't destroy their spirit. 在我总统任期临近结束时，劳拉曾前往海地考察那里的艾滋病紧急救援计划项目。我清楚地记得她回来向我讲述海地人民的活力和乐观。海地人民身上有一种难以置信的精神。虽然那场地震摧毁了许多东西，却没有摧毁他们的精神。
So the people of Haiti will recovery and rebuild, and as they do they know they'll have a friend in the United States of America. Mr. President, thank you for giving me the chance to serve. 因此，海地人民将会恢复和重建，而在此过程中，他们知道美国将是他们的朋友。总统先生，感谢您给我服务的机会。
PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON: First, I want to thank President Obama for asking President Bush and me to do this, and for what I believe has been a truly extraordinary response on the part of the American government. Because I've been working down there for nearly a year as the U.N. special envoy, I've been in constant touch with our people through the U.N. on the ground, and you know we lost a lot of our people there -- the largest loss of life in the history of the United Nations on a single day. 威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿总统：首先，我要感谢奥巴马总统邀请布什总统和我做这件事，并感谢美国政府作出我认为真正非凡的回应。由于我作为联合国特使在那里工作了近一年，我一直与我们在当地的联合国人员保持密切联系，你们知道我们在那里失去了许多同事——这是联合国历史上单日死亡人数最多的一次。
The United States has been there from the beginning. The military has been great. The response by the State Department and AID has been great. I just can't say enough about it. And the people in Haiti know it, and I'm grateful. 美国从一开始就在那里。军方表现出色。国务院和美国国际开发署的回应也非常出色。我对这一切赞不绝口。海地人民都知道这一点，我对此心怀感激。
Secondly, I'd like to thank President Bush for agreeing to do this, and for the concern he showed for Haiti. Before this happened, my foundation worked with the PEPFAR people on the AIDS problems in Haiti and I saw how good they were and what they did and how many lives they saved. 其次，我要感谢布什总统同意做这件事，以及他对海地所表现出的关心。在这件事发生之前，我的基金会与PEPFAR的人员合作处理海地的艾滋病问题，我看到了他们的出色工作、他们的所作所为以及他们拯救了多少生命。
Finally, let me say that -- I don't have to read the Web site because they did -- but I want to say something about this. Right now all we need to do is get food and medicine and water and a secure place for them to be. But when we start the rebuilding effort, we want to do what I did with the President's father in the tsunami area. We want to be a place where people can know their money will be well spent; where we will ensure the ongoing integrity of the process. 最后，我要说——我不必念网站地址，他们已经念过了——但我想就此说几句。眼下我们需要做的就是为他们提供食物、药品、水和一个安全的栖身之所。但当我们开始重建工作时，我们想做的就像我与总统的父亲在海啸灾区所做的那样。我们想成为一个让人们知道他们的钱会被妥善使用的地方；我们将确保整个过程持续保持廉洁。
And we want to stay with this over the long run. My job with the U.N. basically is not at all in conflict with this because I'm sort of the outside guy. My job is to work with the donor nations, the international agencies, the business people around the world to try to get them to invest there, the nongovernmental organizations, the Haitian diaspora community. 我们想长期坚持下去。我在联合国的工作基本上与此并不冲突，因为我算是"外部的人"。我的工作是与其他捐助国、国际机构、世界各地的商人合作，鼓励他们去那里投资，以及非政府组织和海地侨民社区。
I believe before this earthquake Haiti had the best chance in my lifetime to escape its history -- a history that Hillary and I have shared a tiny part of. I still believe that. The Haitians want to just amend their development plan to take account of what's happened in Port-au-Prince and west, figure out what they got to do about that, and then go back to implementing it. But it's going to take a lot of help and a long time. 我相信，在这场地震之前，海地有着我一生中所见到的摆脱其历史的最好机会——这段历史，希拉里和我曾有幸分担过一小部分。我仍然相信这一点。海地人民只是想修订他们的开发计划，以应对太子港及其西部所发生的事情，弄清楚他们必须如何应对，然后再继续实施。但这将需要大量帮助和很长时间。
So I'm just grateful that President Bush wants to help, and I've already figured out how I can get him to do some things that he didn't sign on for. 因此，我只是感激布什总统愿意提供帮助，而且我已经想好了如何让他做一些他原本没答应做的事情。
Again, I have no words to say what I feel like. When you -- I was in those hotels that collapsed. I had meals with people who are dead. The cathedral church that Hillary and I sat in 34 years ago is a total rubble. But what these men have said is true: It is still one of the most remarkable, unique places I have ever been. And they can escape their history and build a better future if we do our part. And President Obama, thank you for giving us a chance to do a little of that. 再说一次，我无法用言语表达我的感受。当你——我曾住过那些坍塌的酒店。我曾与那些已经离世的人共进餐食。34年前希拉里和我坐过的那座大教堂如今已成一片废墟。但这两位先生所说的是真的：它仍然是我所到过的最非凡、最独特的地方之一。如果我们尽自己的一份力量，他们就能够摆脱他们的历史，建设一个更美好的未来。奥巴马总统，感谢您给我们机会为此尽一份力。
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Well, these gentlemen are going to do an extraordinary job, but really what they're going to be doing is just tapping into the incredible generosity, the ingenuity, the can-do spirit of the American people in helping our neighbors in need. So I want to thank each of them not only for being here today but what I know is going to be an extraordinary effort. 奥巴马总统：嗯，这两位先生将会做出非凡的工作，但他们真正要做的只是激发美国人民在帮助有需要的邻居时所展现出的那种难以置信的慷慨、智慧和能力。所以我要感谢他们两位今天来到这里，也感谢他们即将做出的非凡努力。
I want to make sure that everybody got that Web site one more time. Obviously we're just standing it up, but it will immediately give people a means to contact our offices -- www.clintonbushhaitifund.org. 我想确保大家再一次听到那个网站。显然我们刚刚把它建立起来，但它会立即给人们提供一种联系我们办公室的途径——www.clintonbushhaitifund.org。
And I just want to amplify one thing that was said. We were talking in the back. In any extraordinary catastrophe like this, the first several weeks are just going to involve getting immediate relief on the ground. And there are going to be some tough days over the next several days. People are still trying to figure out how to organize themselves. There's going to be fear, anxiety, a sense of desperation in some cases. 我还想强调刚才所说的一点。我们刚才在后面交谈时提到。在任何这样的特大灾难中，最初几周的工作主要是将紧急救援送到现场。在接下来的几天里将会有些艰难的日子。人们仍在试图弄清如何组织起来。将会出现恐惧、焦虑，在某些情况下还有绝望。
I've been in contact with President Préval. I've been talking to the folks on the ground. We are going to be making slow and steady progress, and the key now is to -- for everybody in Haiti to understand that there is going to be sustained help on the way. 我一直与普雷瓦尔总统保持联系。我也一直在与当地的人员交谈。我们将取得缓慢但稳步的进展，现在的关键是让海地的所有人都明白，持续的帮助正在路上。
But what these gentlemen are going to be able to do is when the news media starts seeing its attention drift to other things but there's still enormous needs on the ground, these two gentlemen of extraordinary stature I think are going to be able to help ensure that these efforts are sustained. And that's why it's so important and that's why I'm so grateful that they agreed to do it. 而这两位先生能够做到的是，当新闻媒体开始将注意力转向其他事情，而当地仍有巨大需求时，这两位地位非凡的先生将能够帮助确保这些努力得以持续。正因如此这件事如此重要，正因如此我对他们答应做这件事心怀感激。
Thank you, gentlemen. 谢谢两位。