Hey, Chicago! Hello, Chicago! Hello, everybody. Hello, Hyde Park! It is good to be home! It is good to be home! Everybody have a seat. You all relax. It’s just me. You all know me. It is good to be back home. 嘿，芝加哥！你好，芝加哥！大家好！海德公园，你好！回到家乡真好！回到家乡真好！大家请坐，放松些。只是我而已，你们都认识我。回到家乡真好。
A couple of people I want to acknowledge -- first of all, I want to thank your Mayor, my great friend, Rahm Emanuel for his outstanding leadership of the city and his kind introduction. I want to thank everybody here at Hyde Park Academy for welcoming me here today. 我想先向几位人士致意。首先，感谢你们的市长、我的挚友拉姆·伊曼纽尔，感谢他对这座城市的杰出领导和亲切介绍。也感谢海德公园学院的所有人今天欢迎我来到这里。
I want to acknowledge your principal and your assistant principal -- although, they really make me feel old, because when I saw them -- where are they? Where are they? Stand up. Stand up. They are doing outstanding work. We’re very, very proud them. But you do make me feel old. Sit down. 我要向你们的校长和副校长致意——不过他们确实让我觉得自己老了，因为我看到他们时……他们在哪儿？在哪儿？请站起来。请站起来。他们工作出色，我们为他们感到非常、非常骄傲。不过你们确实让我觉得老了。请坐。
A couple other people I want to acknowledge -- Governor Pat Quinn is here doing great work down in Springfield. My great friend and senior Senator Dick Durbin is in the house. Congressman Bobby Rush is here. We’re in his district. Attorney General and former seatmate of mine when I was in the state senate, Lisa Madigan. County Board President -- used to be my alderwoman -- Tony Preckwinkle in the house. 我还想向几位人士致意：帕特·奎因州长正在斯普林菲尔德出色地工作；我的挚友、资深参议员迪克·德宾也在场；众议员博比·拉什也来了，我们现在就在他的选区；还有伊利诺伊州总检察长丽莎·马迪根，我担任州参议员时她曾与我同席；县委员会主席托妮·普雷克温克尔也在场，她过去还是我所在选区的市议员。
And I’ve got -- I see a lot of reverend clergy here, but I’m not going to mention them, because if I miss one I’m in trouble. They’re all friends of mine. They’ve been knowing me. 我还看到许多牧师和神职人员，但我就不逐一提名了，因为漏掉任何一位我都会有麻烦。他们都是我的朋友，很早就认识我。
Some people may not know this, but obviously, this is my old neighborhood. I used to teach right around the corner. This is where Michelle and I met, where we fell in love -- 有些人可能不知道，这里显然是我从前生活的社区。我过去就在附近教书。米歇尔和我在这里相识、相爱——
Audience: Aww -- 观众：哦——
President Obama: This is where we raised our daughters, in a house just about a mile away from here -- less than a mile. And that’s really what I’ve come here to talk about today -- raising our kids. 奥巴马总统：我们在这里抚养女儿，住处离这里大约一英里——还不到一英里。这也正是我今天真正想谈的事：养育我们的孩子。
Audience: We love you! 观众：我们爱你！
President Obama: I love you, too. I love you, too. 奥巴马总统：我也爱你们。我也爱你们。
I’m here to make sure that we talk about and then work towards giving every child every chance in life; building stronger communities and new ladders of opportunity that they can climb into the middle class and beyond; and, most importantly, keeping them safe from harm. 我来到这里，是要确保我们能讨论并努力让每个孩子都获得人生中的每一次机会；建设更强大的社区和新的机会阶梯，让他们能够攀登进入中产阶级、甚至走得更远；最重要的是，让他们免受伤害。
Michelle was born and raised here -- a proud daughter of the South Side. Last weekend, she came home, but it was to attend the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton . And Hadiya’s parents, by the way, are here -- and I want to just acknowledge them. They are just wonderful, wonderful people. 米歇尔在这里出生长大，是南区引以为傲的女儿。上周末她回到家乡，却是参加哈迪娅·彭德尔顿的葬礼。顺便说一句，哈迪娅的父母今天也在这里，我想向他们致意；他们是非常、非常好的人。
And as you know, this week, in my State of the Union , I talked about Hadiya on Tuesday night and the fact that unfortunately what happened to Hadiya is not unique. It's not unique to Chicago. It's not unique to this country. Too many of our children are being taken away from us. 正如大家知道的，本周二晚我在国情咨文中谈到哈迪娅；令人遗憾的是，她的遭遇并不罕见。这不仅发生在芝加哥，也不仅发生在这个国家。我们失去的孩子太多了。
Two months ago, America mourned 26 innocent first-graders and their educators in Newtown . And today, I had the high honor of giving the highest civilian award I can give to the parent -- or the families of the educators who had been killed in Newtown. And there was something profound and uniquely heartbreaking and tragic, obviously, about a group of 6-year-olds being killed. But last year, there were 443 murders with a firearm on the streets of this city, and 65 of those victims were 18 and under. So that’s the equivalent of a Newtown every four months. 两个月前，美国为纽敦遇害的26名无辜一年级学生和教育工作者哀悼。今天，我有幸向遇害教育工作者的家属授予我所能颁发的最高平民荣誉。六岁孩子遇害当然格外令人心碎和悲痛；但去年本市街头发生了443起枪支杀人案，65名受害者不满18岁，相当于每四个月就发生一次纽敦悲剧。
And that’s precisely why the overwhelming majority of Americans are asking for some common-sense proposals to make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun. And as I said on Tuesday night, I recognize not everybody agrees with every issue. There are regional differences. The experience of gun ownership is different in urban areas than it is in rural areas, different from upstate and downstate Illinois. But these proposals deserve a vote in Congress. They deserve a vote. They deserve a vote. 这正是绝大多数美国人要求采取常识性措施、让罪犯更难获得枪支的原因。正如我周二所说，我知道不是每个人都同意每一项政策；地区不同，城市、农村以及伊利诺伊州南北部对持枪的体验也不同。但这些提案应在国会获得表决，应该表决。
And I want to thank those members of Congress who are working together in a serious way to try to address this issue. 我感谢那些正认真合作、试图处理这一问题的议员。
But I’ve also said no law or set of laws can prevent every senseless act of violence in this country. When a child opens fire on another child, there’s a hole in that child’s heart that government can't fill -- only community and parents and teachers and clergy can fill that hole. 但我也说过，任何一项法律或一套法律都不能阻止这个国家每一次无意义的暴力。当一个孩子向另一个孩子开枪时，他心里有一个政府无法填补的空洞，只有社区、父母、教师和教士能填补。
In too many neighborhoods today -- whether here in Chicago or the farthest reaches of rural America -- it can feel like for a lot of young people the future only extends to the next street corner or the outskirts of town; that no matter how much you work or how hard you try, your destiny was determined the moment you were born. There are entire neighborhoods where young people, they don’t see an example of somebody succeeding. 如今许多社区里，无论在芝加哥还是偏远的美国农村，许多年轻人觉得未来只到下一个街角或城镇边缘；无论多么努力，命运在出生时就已决定。整片街区的年轻人看不到成功的榜样。
And for a lot of young boys and young men, in particular, they don’t see an example of fathers or grandfathers, uncles, who are in a position to support families and be held up and respected. 尤其许多男孩和青年男子，看不到能够养家、值得尊敬的父亲、祖父或叔叔。
And so that means that this is not just a gun issue. It’s also an issue of the kinds of communities that we’re building. And for that, we all share a responsibility, as citizens, to fix it. We all share a responsibility to move this country closer to our founding vision that no matter who you are, or where you come from, here in America, you can decide your own destiny. You can succeed if you work hard and fulfill your responsibilities. 所以这不只是枪支问题，也是我们建设何种社区的问题。作为公民，我们都肩负修复它的责任，也都有责任让国家更接近建国理想：无论你是谁、来自何方，在美国你都能决定自己的命运；只要努力并履行责任，就能成功。
Now, that means we’ve got to grow our economy and create more good jobs. It means we’ve got to equip every American with the skills and the training to fill those jobs. And it means we’ve got to rebuild ladders of opportunity for everybody willing to climb them. 这意味着我们必须发展经济、创造更多好工作；必须让每个美国人具备填补这些岗位所需的技能和培训；也必须为每个愿意攀登的人重建机会阶梯。
Now, that starts at home. There’s no more important ingredient for success, nothing that would be more important for us reducing violence than strong, stable families -- which means we should do more to promote marriage and encourage fatherhood. Don’t get me wrong -- as the son of a single mom, who gave everything she had to raise me with the help of my grandparents, I turned out okay. But -- no, no, but I think it’s -- so we’ve got single moms out here, they’re heroic in what they’re doing and we are so proud of them. 这要从家庭开始。没有什么比强大稳定的家庭更关乎成功、更能减少暴力，因此我们应更多促进婚姻、鼓励父亲承担责任。别误会，作为单亲母亲在祖父母帮助下倾尽一切抚养长大的儿子，我成长得不错；单亲母亲很勇敢，我们为她们骄傲。
But at the same time, I wish I had had a father who was around and involved. Loving, supportive parents -- and, by the way, that’s all kinds of parents -- that includes foster parents, and that includes grandparents, and extended families; it includes gay or straight parents. 但我仍希望父亲能在身边并参与其中。充满爱和支持的父母可以有各种形式，包括寄养父母、祖父母、大家庭，也包括同性或异性父母。
Those parents supporting kids -- that’s the single most important thing. Unconditional love for your child -- that makes a difference. If a child grows up with parents who have work, and have some education, and can be role models, and can teach integrity and responsibility, and discipline and delayed gratification -- all those things give a child the kind of foundation that allows them to say, my future, I can make it what I want. And we’ve got to make sure that every child has that, and in some cases, we may have to fill the gap and the void if children don’t have that. 父母支持孩子是最重要的事。无条件爱孩子会带来改变。若孩子的父母有工作、受过教育，能够成为榜样，教导正直、责任、纪律和延迟满足，孩子就会拥有基础，相信未来可以由自己塑造。我们必须保证每个孩子都有这样的基础；有时孩子没有时，我们要填补空缺。
So we should encourage marriage by removing the financial disincentives for couples who love one another but may find it financially disadvantageous if they get married. We should reform our child support laws to get more men working and engaged with their children. And my Administration will continue to work with the faith community and the private sector this year on a campaign to encourage strong parenting and fatherhood. Because what makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one. 因此，应消除相爱伴侣因结婚而在经济上吃亏的因素，以鼓励婚姻；应改革儿童抚养法，让更多男性有工作并参与孩子的生活。今年，我的政府还将同宗教界和私营部门合作，开展鼓励良好育儿和父亲责任的行动。使人成为男人的，不是能够生一个孩子，而是有勇气把孩子养大。
We also know, though, that there is no surer path to success in the middle class than a good education. And what we now know is that that has to begin in the earliest years. Study after study shows that the earlier a child starts learning, the more likely they are to succeed -- the more likely they are to do well at Hyde Park Academy; the more likely they are to graduate; the more likely they are to get a good job; the more likely they are to form stable families and then be able to raise children themselves who get off to a good start. 我们也知道，通往中产阶级成功最可靠的道路莫过于良好教育，而教育必须从最早的岁月开始。研究一再显示，孩子越早学习，越可能成功：更可能在海德公园学院表现出色、毕业、得到好工作、组成稳定家庭，并让自己的孩子有良好开端。
Chicago already has a competition, thanks to what the Mayor is doing, that rewards the best preschools in the city -- so Rahm has already prioritized this. But what I’ve also done is say, let’s give every child across America access to high-quality, public preschool. Every child, not just some. Every dollar we put into early childhood education can save $7 down the road by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, reducing violent crime, reducing the welfare rolls, making sure that folks who have work, now they’re paying taxes. 在市长推动下，芝加哥已有奖励最佳幼儿园的竞赛，拉姆已把这列为优先事项。但我还提出，应让全美国每一个孩子获得高质量公立学前教育，而不只是少数人。每投入1美元早期教育，日后可节省7美元：提高毕业率、减少青少年怀孕和暴力犯罪、减少福利支出，并让有工作的人缴税。
All this stuff pays back huge dividends if we make the investment. So let’s make this happen. Let’s make sure every child has the chance they deserve. 只要投资，这一切都会有巨大回报。让我们实现它，确保每个孩子都有应得的机会。
As kids go through school, we’ll recruit new math and science teachers to make sure that they’ve got the skills that the future demands. We’ll help more young people in low-income neighborhoods get summer jobs. We’ll redesign our high schools and encourage our kids to stay in high school, so that the diploma they get leads directly to a good job once they graduate. 随着孩子成长，我们将招募新的数学和科学教师，确保他们具备未来需要的技能；帮助低收入社区更多青年获得暑期工作；重新设计高中，鼓励学生完成学业，使文凭能在毕业后直接通向好工作。
Right here in Chicago, five new high schools have partnered with companies and community colleges to prepare our kids with the skills that businesses are looking for right now. And your College to Careers program helps community college students get access to the same kinds of real-world experiences. So we know what works. Let’s just do it in more places. Let’s reach more young people. Let’s give more kids a chance. 就在芝加哥，五所新高中已与企业和社区学院合作，培养企业当下需要的技能。你们的“从大学到职业”项目也让社区学院学生获得同样的现实经验。我们知道什么有效；只要在更多地方去做，触及更多年轻人，给更多孩子机会。
So we know how important families are. We know how important education is. We recognize that government alone can’t solve these problems of violence and poverty, that everybody has to be involved. But we also have to remember that the broader economic environment of communities is critical as well. For example, we need to make sure that folks who are working now, often in the hardest jobs, see their work rewarded with wages that allow them to raise a family without falling into poverty. 我们知道家庭的重要、教育的重要，也认识到政府无法独自解决暴力和贫困，人人都必须参与。但我们也必须记住，社区更广泛的经济环境同样关键。我们要确保正在工作、往往从事最辛苦工作的人，得到足以养家而不陷入贫困的工资回报。
Today, a family with two kids that works hard and relies on a minimum wage salary still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong, and we should fix it. We should reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. And that's why we should raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour and make it a wage you can live on. 今天，一个育有两个孩子、辛勤工作且靠最低工资生活的家庭仍在贫困线以下。这是错误的，必须改变。诚实一天的劳动应得到诚实的工资；因此我们应把最低工资提高到每小时9美元，使其成为能维持生活的工资。
And even though some cities have bounced back pretty quickly from the recession, we know that there are communities and neighborhoods within cities or in small towns that haven’t bounced back. Cities like Chicago are ringed with former factory towns that never came back all the way from plants packing up; there are pockets of poverty where young adults are still looking for their first job. 尽管有些城市已较快从衰退中复苏，我们知道城市内部和小城镇的一些社区尚未恢复。芝加哥周围有不少旧工厂城镇，工厂撤走后从未完全回来；还有贫困地区，年轻人仍在寻找第一份工作。
And that’s why on Tuesday I announced -- and that's part of what I want to focus on here in Chicago and across the country -- is my intention to partner with 20 of the hardest-hit communities in America to get them back in the game -- get them back in the game. 这就是为什么我周二宣布——也是我希望在芝加哥及全国着力推进的事——我打算同美国受打击最严重的20个社区合作，帮助它们重新参与进来，重新振作。
First, we’ll work with local leaders to cut through red tape and improve things like public safety and education and housing. And we’ll bring all the resources to bear in a coordinated fashion so that we can get that tipping point where suddenly a community starts feeling like things are changing and we can come back. 第一，我们将同地方领导人合作，破除繁文缛节，改善公共安全、教育和住房等事务；并协调调动一切资源，促成转折点，使社区突然感到变化正在发生、能够复苏。
Second of all, if you’re willing to play a role in a child’s education, then we’ll help you reform your schools. We want to seed more and more partnerships of the kind that Rahm is trying to set up. 第二，如果你愿意在孩子教育中发挥作用，我们将帮助你改革学校。我们希望培育越来越多像拉姆正尝试建立的伙伴关系。
Third, we’re going to help bring jobs and growth to hard-hit neighborhoods by giving tax breaks to business owners who invest and hire in those neighborhoods. 第三，我们将通过为在这些街区投资和雇人的企业主提供税收减免，帮助受冲击街区带来工作和增长。
Fourth, and specific to the issue of violence -- because it’s very hard to develop economically if people don't feel safe. If they don't feel like they can walk down the street and shop at a store without getting hit over head or worse, then commerce dries up, businesses don't want to locate, families move out, you get into the wrong cycle. So we’re going to target neighborhoods struggling to deal with violent crime and help them reduce that violence in ways that have been proven to work. And I know this is a priority of your Mayor’s; it’s going to be a priority of mine. 第四，针对暴力问题：如果人们不感到安全，经济发展就很困难。若他们不能安心上街、进店，而担心遭殴打或更糟后果，商业就会萎缩，企业不愿落户，家庭会搬走，形成恶性循环。因此我们将聚焦受暴力犯罪困扰的社区，以已被证明有效的方法帮助它们减少暴力。这既是市长的优先事项，也将是我的优先事项。
And finally, we’re going to keep working in communities all across the country, including here in Chicago, to replace run-down public housing that doesn’t offer much hope or safety with new, healthy homes for low- and moderate-income families. 最后，我们将继续在全国各地、包括芝加哥，替换那些既不给希望也不给安全的破旧公共住房，为低收入和中等收入家庭建设新的健康住房。
And here in Woodlawn, you’ve seen some of the progress that we can make when we come together to rebuild our neighborhoods, and attract new businesses, and improve our schools. Woodlawn is not all the way where it needs to be, but thanks to wonderful institutions like Apostolic Church , we’ve made great progress. 在伍德劳恩，你们已经看到，当我们共同重建街区、吸引新企业、改善学校时可以取得的进步。伍德劳恩尚未达到应有的程度，但多亏使徒教会等优秀机构，我们已取得很大进展。
So we want to help more communities follow your example. And let’s go even farther by offering incentives to companies that hire unemployed Americans who have got what it takes to fill a job opening, but they may have been out of work so long that nobody is willing to give them a chance right now. Let’s put our people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in need of repair. Young people can get experience -- apprenticeships, learn a trade. And we’re removing blight from our community. 因此，我们要帮助更多社区效仿你们。我们还要更进一步，鼓励企业雇用具备岗位能力却因失业太久而无人愿意给机会的美国人。让人们重返工作岗位，修复需要整修的空置房屋；青年可以获得经验、做学徒、学习技术，同时我们也在消除社区的破败。
If we gather together what works, we can extend more ladders of opportunity for anybody who’s working to build a strong, middle-class life for themselves. Because in America, your destiny shouldn’t be determined by where you live, where you were born. It should be determined by how big you’re willing to dream, how much effort and sweat and tears you’re willing to put in to realizing that dream. 只要汇聚有效做法，我们就能为每个正在努力建立强大中产阶级生活的人延伸更多机会阶梯。在美国，你的命运不应由居住地或出生地决定，而应由你愿意怀抱多大的梦想，以及愿意为实现梦想付出多少努力、汗水和泪水决定。
When I first moved to Chicago -- before any of the students in this room were born -- and a whole lot of people who are in the audience remember me from those days, I lived in a community on the South Side right up the block, but I also worked further south where communities had been devastated by some of the steel plants closing. And my job was to work with churches and laypeople and local leaders to rebuild neighborhoods, and improve schools, and help young people who felt like they had nowhere to turn. 我初到芝加哥时——那是在这间屋里所有学生出生之前，许多在场的人还记得那些日子——我住在南区不远处，也在更南边工作；那里的一些社区因钢铁厂关闭而遭受重创。我的工作是同教会、普通居民和地方领袖一起重建社区、改善学校，并帮助感到无路可走的年轻人。
And those of you who worked with me, Reverend Love, you remember, it wasn’t easy. Progress didn’t come quickly. Sometimes I got so discouraged I thought about just giving up. But what kept me going was the belief that with enough determination and effort and persistence and perseverance, change is always possible; that we may not be able to help everybody, but if we help a few then that propels progress forward. We may not be able to save every child from gun violence, but if we save a few, that starts changing the atmosphere in our communities. 和我一起工作过的人，洛夫牧师，你们记得这并不容易。进步来得不快，有时我沮丧到想放弃。但让我坚持的是这样的信念：只要有足够的决心、努力、恒心和毅力，改变总有可能；我们也许不能帮助每一个人，但帮助一些人就能推动进步。也许不能让每个孩子免于枪支暴力，但救下几个，就会改变社区氛围。
We may not be able to get everybody a job right away, but if we get a few folks a job, then everybody starts feeling a little more hopeful and a little more encouraged. Neighborhood by neighborhood, one block by one block, one family at a time. 也许不能立刻让每个人有工作，但让一些人有工作，大家就会更有希望、更受鼓舞。一个街区接一个街区，一条街接一条街，一个家庭接一个家庭。
Now, this is what I had a chance to talk about when I met with some young men from Hyde Park Academy who were participating in this B.A.M. program. Where are the guys I talked to? Stand up you all, so we can all see you guys. So these are some -- these are all some exceptional young men, and I couldn't be prouder of them. And the reason I'm proud of them is because a lot of them have had some issues. That's part of the reason why you guys are in the program. 这正是我同参与“成为男子汉”项目的海德公园学院几位年轻人见面时所谈的。和我交谈过的伙计们在哪里？都站起来让大家看看。你们都是很出色的年轻人，我为你们感到无比自豪。我自豪，是因为你们不少人经历过一些困难，这也是你们参加该项目的部分原因。
But what I explained to them was I had issues too when I was their age. I just had an environment that was a little more forgiving. So when I screwed up, the consequences weren't as high as when kids on the South Side screw up. So I had more of a safety net. But these guys are no different than me, and we had that conversation about what does it take to change. And the same thing that it takes for us individually to change, I said to them, well, that's what it takes for communities to change. That's what it takes for countries to change. It's not easy. 我向他们解释，我在他们这个年纪也有问题，只是所处环境更宽容。所以我犯错时，后果不像南区孩子犯错那么严重；我有更多安全网。但他们和我并无不同。我们谈到改变需要什么；我告诉他们，个人改变需要的东西，也正是社区改变、国家改变所需要的东西。这并不容易。
But it does require us, first of all, having a vision about where we want to be. It requires us recognizing that it will be hard work getting there. It requires us being able to overcome and persevere in the face of roadblocks and disappointments and failures. It requires us reflecting internally about who we are and what we believe in, and facing up to our own fears and insecurities, and admitting when we're wrong. And that same thing that we have to do in our individual lives that these guys talked about, that's what we have to do for our communities. 但它首先要求我们对想去的地方有愿景，认识到抵达那里需要艰苦工作；要求我们面对障碍、失望和失败仍能克服和坚持；要求我们内省自己是谁、相信什么，正视恐惧和不安，并在错时承认错误。这些年轻人谈到的、我们个人生活中必须做到的事，也是社区必须做到的事。
And it will not be easy, but it can be done. 它不会容易，但可以做到。
When Hadiya Pendleton and her classmates visited Washington three weeks ago, they spent time visiting the monuments -- including the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial just off the National Mall. And that memorial stands as a tribute to everything Dr. King achieved in his lifetime. But it also reminds us of how hard that work was and how many disappointments he experienced. He was here in Chicago fighting poverty, and just like a lot of us, there were times where he felt like he was losing hope. 三周前，哈迪娅·彭德尔顿和同学到华盛顿参观，游览了包括国家广场旁马丁·路德·金博士纪念碑在内的纪念地。纪念碑致敬金博士一生取得的一切成就，也提醒我们他的工作多么艰难、经历过多少失望。他曾在芝加哥与贫困斗争，和我们许多人一样，也曾觉得失去希望。
So in some ways, that memorial is a testament not to work that's completed, but it’s a testament to the work that remains unfinished. 因此，这座纪念碑某种意义上不只是对已完成工作的见证，更是对尚未完成工作的见证。
His goal was to free us not only from the shackles of discrimination, but from the shadow of poverty that haunts too many of our communities, the self-destructive impulses, and the mindless violence that claims so many lives of so many innocent young people. 他的目标不仅是让我们摆脱歧视的枷锁，也让我们摆脱困扰太多社区的贫困阴影、破坏自己的冲动，以及夺走众多无辜年轻人生命的盲目暴力。
These are difficult challenges. No solution we offer will be perfect. But perfection has never been our goal. Our goal has been to try and make whatever difference we can. Our goal has been to engage in the hard but necessary work of bringing America one step closer to the nation we know we can be. 这些挑战很艰难。我们提出的任何解决办法都不会完美，但完美从来不是目标。我们的目标是尽力带来改变；是投身于艰难却必要的工作，让美国向我们知道它能够成为的国家再靠近一步。
If we do that, if we’re striving with every fiber of our being to strengthen our middle class, to extend ladders of opportunity for everybody who is trying as hard as they can to create a better life for themselves; if we do everything in our power to keep our children safe from harm; if we’re fulfilling our obligations to one another and to future generations; if we make that effort, then I’m confident -- I’m confident that we will write the next great chapter in our American story. I’m not going to be able to do it by myself, though. Nobody can. We’re going to have to do it together. 如果我们这样做，如果我们竭尽全力壮大中产阶级，为所有正努力创造更好生活的人延伸机会阶梯；如果我们尽一切力量保护孩子免受伤害；如果我们履行对彼此和后代的义务；那么我相信——我相信——我们将写下美国故事下一个伟大篇章。但我无法独自做到，任何人都不能；我们必须一起做到。
Thank you, everybody. 谢谢大家。
God bless you. 愿上帝保佑你们。
God bless the United States of America. 愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。