Let’s give it up for Buzz and the Georgia Tech Band for getting us fired up. Also give it up for Governor Nathan Deal, who is here. Congressmen Hank Johnson and David Scott. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. And the President of this great institution, Georgia Tech, Bud Peterson. That’s good. You’ve got a high approval rating. You do. Absolutely. 让我们为巴斯和佐治亚理工乐队鼓掌，感谢他们点燃了我们的热情。也让我们为在场的内森·迪尔州长鼓掌。还有汉克·约翰逊和大卫·斯科特两位国会议员。亚特兰大市长卡西姆·里德。以及这所伟大学府的校长——佐治亚理工的巴德·彼得森。很好。你的支持率很高啊。确实如此。绝对的。
We also have a special guest with us -- this is a proud Georgia Tech alum, who just happens also to be the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Sandy Winnefeld is here. Where’s Sandy? There he is. Before he was the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was a Navy fighter pilot, which is cooler. Now he just goes to meetings. What’s up with that? I told him he’s got to get back on a plane. 我们今天还有一位特别的嘉宾——他是自豪的佐治亚理工校友，同时也是参谋长联席会议副主席，桑迪·温尼菲尔德海军上将在座。桑迪在哪里？在那儿。在他成为参谋长联席会议副主席之前，他是一名海军战斗机飞行员，那可比现在酷多了。现在他就只是开会。这算怎么回事？我跟他说，他得重新开上飞机才行。
It is great to be at one of the finest technical institutes in the world. One of the finest in the world. I mean, you’ve got to be if the Ramblin’ Wreck is still running after all these years. That’s a Georgia Tech reference that some of you may not know. I also know that Georgia Tech is terrific because we’ve actually worked with you on several fronts -– from promoting advanced manufacturing to unlocking the mysteries of the brain to helping more students become entrepreneurs. 来到世界上最顶尖的理工学院之一，真是太棒了。世界上最顶尖的之一。我的意思是，既然"兰布林·雷克"老爷车这么多年了还能跑，那你们肯定差不了。这是佐治亚理工的一个典故，可能有些人不知道。我还知道佐治亚理工非常了不起，因为我们实际上已经在好几个方面与你们合作过——从推动先进制造业，到解开大脑的奥秘，再到帮助更多学生成为企业家。
And the reason I wanted to come here today is because I believe that higher education, as you believe, is one of the best investments that anybody can make in their future. And it’s also one of the best investments you can make in our country’s future. So I’m here to say thank you and to tell you I’m proud of you, because I know that it’s not always easy to do what you’re doing. It takes perseverance. A lot of late nights in the library and the lab, and you’re wrapping your minds around complex formulas and concepts that, frankly, I don’t understand. But I know they’re complex. 我今天想来这里的原因是，我相信高等教育——正如你们所相信的那样——是任何人对自己未来所能做的最好投资之一。它也是你对我们国家未来所能做的最好投资之一。所以我来这里是为了说声谢谢，告诉你们我为你们感到骄傲，因为我知道你们正在做的事情并不总是那么容易。它需要毅力。无数个在图书馆和实验室里熬夜的夜晚，你们绞尽脑汁去理解那些复杂的公式和概念，说实话，我根本不懂。但我知道它们很复杂。
And some of you are holding jobs down at the same time, which makes it even harder. 你们中有些人还在同时打工，这就让事情变得更加困难。
But as frustrating as it may be, and Tiffany expressed some frustrations on occasion, it is worth it. Higher education has never been more important. And the message I want to deliver today, not just to you but to the entire country, is the entire nation has to treat it as a priority. 但尽管可能令人沮丧——蒂芙尼偶尔也表达了一些沮丧——但这一切都是值得的。高等教育从未像现在这样重要。我今天想要传达的信息，不仅是给你们的，也是给整个国家的，那就是：整个国家都必须把它当作一项优先事务。
Right now, our economy is growing steadily. It's creating new jobs. You’re going to be going into a job market that’s much better than the one that existed when I came into office six years ago. After the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, over the past five years, our businesses have now created 12 million new jobs. Unemployment continues to come down, and obviously that’s good news for those of you who are graduating soon. Yes, that’s right, you want a job. Your parents also want you to have a job. They don’t want you on the couch. 目前，我们的经济正在稳步增长。它正在创造新的就业机会。你们即将进入的就业市场，比我六年前上任时要好得多。在经历了我们有生以来最严重的经济危机之后，在过去五年里，我们的企业已经创造了1200万个新的就业岗位。失业率持续下降，显然，对于你们这些即将毕业的人来说，这是个好消息。是的，没错，你们想要一份工作。你们的父母也希望你们有工作。他们可不想让你们赖在沙发上。
But I didn’t run for President just to get us back to where we were -– I ran for President to get us to where we need to go. And where we need to go is a growing middle class with rising incomes and opportunities for everybody who’s willing to work hard. An America where no matter who you are, what you look like, where you came from, how you started, who you love, what faith you’re a part of, you can make it in this country if you try. That’s what America is all about. 但我竞选总统不只是为了让我们回到过去的状态——我竞选总统是为了让我们到达我们需要去的地方。我们需要去的地方是一个不断壮大的中产阶级，收入不断提高，每个愿意努力工作的人都有机会。在这样一个美国，无论你是谁，长什么样，来自哪里，出身如何，爱谁，信仰什么宗教，只要你努力，你就能在这个国家成功。这就是美国的真谛。
And today, a college degree is the surest ticket to the middle class and beyond. It’s the key to getting a good job that pays a good income. And it offers a measure of security, because a college degree tells employers that you don’t just have one set of skills; that you’ve got the continuous capacity to learn new skills, which is going to be particularly important for your generation because the economy is going to churn and change in ways that none of us can even anticipate. 而今天，大学学位是进入中产阶级乃至更高阶层的最可靠门票。它是获得一份收入不错的好工作的关键。它还提供了某种程度的保障，因为大学学位告诉雇主，你不只是拥有一套技能；你具备不断学习新技能的能力，这对你们这一代人来说将尤为重要，因为经济将以我们任何人都无法预料的方式发生剧变和变化。
Before we came out here, I was talking to a group, including Sandy Winnefeld, and your Mayor Kasim Reed, Tyler Perry buddies -- he wasn’t in Madea, he was Tyler. And we were talking about how rapidly the technology is transforming everything we understand, everything we know --everything from drones, to artificial intelligence, to driver-less cars. And we don’t yet know how all that is going to shape the nation that you inherit, but we know it's going to shape it dramatically. And in order for you to be able to be successful, you’re going to have to adapt, continuously. 在我们出来之前，我正在和一群人交谈，包括桑迪·温尼菲尔德，还有你们的市长卡西姆·里德——泰勒·佩里的好朋友——他不是扮成玛迪亚，他就是泰勒本人。我们在谈论技术正在如何迅速改变我们理解、我们所知的一切——从无人机到人工智能，再到无人驾驶汽车。我们还不知道这一切将如何塑造你们所继承的国家，但我们知道它将带来巨大的改变。而为了让你们能够成功，你们必须不断适应。
The days where you work at one place for 30, 40 years, those days are over. 一份工作干上三四十年的日子已经一去不复返了。
And so the skillsets you are getting now are going to keep you in that job market. You’re going to have multiple jobs before you’re 30. Some of you will have multiple careers. And we live in a 21st-century economy, where your most valuable asset is your imagination, your knowledge, your ability to analyze tough problems. And that’s not just true for individual Americans, it’s true for our whole country. 所以你们现在学到的技能将让你们在就业市场中立于不败之地。在30岁之前，你们会有好几份工作。你们中有些人会有好几段职业生涯。我们生活在一个21世纪的经济中，你最宝贵的资产是你的想象力、你的知识、你分析难题的能力。这不仅对每个美国人来说是如此，对我们整个国家来说也是如此。
The ability to compete in the global economy depends on us having the world’s most skilled, best-educated workforce. And by the way, let me just add, it’s also going to be critical for us to maintain our democracy in a complex, diverse society. 在全球经济中的竞争能力，取决于我们是否拥有世界上技能最高、受教育最好的劳动力。顺便说一句，我还要补充一点，这对我们在一个复杂、多元的社会中维护民主也至关重要。
Understandably, when I come to college campuses, there’s a lot of just bread and butter, nuts and bolts, how does this translate into jobs, careers. But part of what has made America the exceptional nation that it is, is our diversity and our ability to draw from every corner of the world -- all the talent, all the ideas -- and create this amazing stew. And the more complex this society, the tougher that becomes. 可以理解的是，当我来到大学校园时，有很多关于实际生计、具体细节的问题——这怎么能转化为工作、职业。但使美国成为一个例外国家的部分原因，是我们的多样性，以及我们从世界各个角落汲取人才和思想、创造这个神奇大熔炉的能力。社会越复杂，做到这一点就越困难。
And so to have all of you possess the ability to listen and to learn from people who aren’t like you -- that’s also what you’re learning here, and that’s going to make you more effective to every employer out there. But it’s also -- it’s going to make you better citizens, and it’s going to make our democracy function better. 所以让你们所有人都具备倾听和向与你不同的人学习的能力——这也是你们在这里学到的东西，这将让你们对每一个雇主来说都更有价值。但它也——它会让你们成为更好的公民，会让我们的民主运转得更好。
But back to the jobs thing. Jobs and businesses will go wherever the best workers are. And I don’t want them to have to look any further than the United States of America. I want businesses investing here. I want Americans getting those new jobs. That’s how we’re going to lead the world in this century just like we did in the 20th century. 不过还是回到工作的话题上来。工作和企业会流向最优秀的工人所在的地方。而我不希望他们需要在美利坚合众国以外的地方寻找。我希望企业在这里投资。我希望美国人获得那些新工作。这就是我们要在本世纪引领世界的方式，就像我们在20世纪所做的那样。
So here’s the challenge: Higher education has never been more important, but it’s also never been more expensive. The average undergrad who borrows money to pay for college graduates with about $28,000 in student loan debt. That’s just the average; some students end up with a lot more than that -- you know who you are. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. 所以挑战在于：高等教育从未像现在这样重要，但它也从未像现在这样昂贵。普通本科生借钱上大学，毕业时背负约2.8万美元的学生贷款债务。这还只是平均水平；有些学生最后欠的钱比这多得多——你们知道我说的是谁。这些你们比我清楚。
And let me say that it’s been established time and time again that Georgia Tech is one of the best bargains around. You are getting a great education for a great value. Which is one of the reasons I’m here; obviously, I wouldn’t go to a place that was a bad bargain and really expensive and no value. That would not make sense. 让我这么说吧，人们已经一次又一次地证实，佐治亚理工是最物超所值的选择之一。你们正在以极好的价值获得极好的教育。这也是我来这里的原因之一；显然，我不会去一个性价比差、又贵又不值的地方。那说不通。
But even here at Georgia Tech, even with the great value it is, it’s expensive. And I’m here to tell you, I’m with you. I believe that America is not a place where higher education is a privilege that is reserved for the few. America needs to be a place where higher education has to be available for every single person who’s willing to strive for it -- who’s willing to work for it. 但即使在佐治亚理工，尽管它已经很物超所值了，费用还是很高。我来这里是要告诉你们，我和你们站在一起。我相信，美国不是一个高等教育只是少数人特权的地方。美国必须是一个高等教育对每一个愿意为之奋斗——愿意为之努力的人都可用的地方。
And I’ve said this before: I take this personally. My grandfather had a chance to go to college because this country decided that when veterans returned home from World War II, they should be able to go to college. And this government stepped up. 我以前也说过：我对此深有感触。我的祖父有机会上大学，是因为这个国家决定，当二战老兵返回家园时，他们应该能够上大学。而政府挺身而出了。
My mother was able to raise two kids by herself, in part because she got grants that helped pay for her education. And I am only standing here -– and Michelle is only where she is today –- because of scholarships and student loans and work study. We did not come from families of means. We didn't come from families of means, but we knew that if we worked hard, there was help out there to make sure we got a great education. That’s what this country gave to us. 我的母亲能够独自抚养两个孩子，部分原因是她获得了助学金来支付她的教育费用。而我今天能站在这里——米歇尔能有今天的成就——都是因为奖学金、学生贷款和工读项目。我们并非出身富裕家庭。我们不是来自有钱人家，但我们知道，如果我们努力工作，就会有帮助来确保我们获得良好的教育。这就是这个国家给予我们的。
And that’s why this has been such a priority for me. I take it personally because when I look out at all of you, I see myself. And I remember the fact that it took me 10 years to pay off all our student loans. We were paying more for our student loans than our mortgage, even after Malia and Sasha were born. We were supposed to be saving for their college education; we were still paying off ours. 这就是为什么这一直是我的优先事项。我对此深有感触，因为当我看着你们所有人时，我看到了我自己。我记得我花了10年才还清我们所有的学生贷款。我们偿还学生贷款的钱比我们的房贷还多，甚至在玛丽亚和萨沙出生后也是如此。我们本应该为她们的大学教育存钱；可我们还在还清自己的贷款。
And that's why we’ve acted again and again to make college more affordable. Five years ago this month, we enacted the largest reforms to the student loan program in history. We cut out the big banks that were taking taxpayer dollars and serving as middlemen in the student loan game, and we said, well, let’s just give the money directly to the students like you. 这就是为什么我们一次又一次地采取行动，让大学变得更负担得起。五年前的这个月，我们实施了有史以来规模最大的学生贷款计划改革。我们砍掉了那些拿纳税人的钱、在学生贷款游戏中充当中间人的大银行，我们说，好吧，让我们直接把钱给像你们这样的学生。
So as a result of that change, we saved billions of dollars. We were to expand tax credits and Pell grants, and put college within reach for millions more middle-class and low-income students across the country. Then we fought to keep interest rates on student rates -- interest rates on student loans low and capped how high those rates can rise. And as a result, the typical undergrad is saving about $1,500. We also acted to let millions of graduates cap their loan payments at 10 percent of their incomes, so they don’t have to choose between paying the rent and paying back their debt. 由于这一改变，我们节省了数十亿美元。我们得以扩大税收抵免和佩尔助学金，让全国数百万更多的中产阶级和低收入学生能够上得起大学。然后我们努力将学生贷款利率保持在低水平，并设定了利率上限。因此，普通本科生大约节省了1500美元。我们还采取行动，让数百万毕业生将他们的贷款还款额限制在收入的10%，这样他们就不必在付房租和还债之间做出选择。
And by the way, everybody here, if you don't already know about the Income-Based Repayment Program, you need to learn about it because it’s still under-utilized. But it gives you an opportunity to make sure that if you make a career choice that doesn't make tons of money, you're still able to do the responsible thing and pay back your loans at a pace that also allows you to build a family and buy a home and live your lives. 顺便说一句，在座的每个人，如果你们还不知道收入还款计划，你们需要去了解一下，因为它还没有得到充分利用。但它让你有机会确保，如果你选择了一份赚不了大钱的职业，你仍然能够做负责任的事，以一个既能让你组建家庭、买房、过自己生活的节奏偿还贷款。
And graduates who go into lower-paying fields like social work or teaching, they're not going to pay a price for following their dreams because they're going to have even better options in terms of how they repay their loans. So that's what we did on the student loan side. 而那些进入社会工作或教学等低薪领域的毕业生，他们不会因为追随自己的梦想而付出代价，因为他们在偿还贷款方面将有更好的选择。这就是我们在学生贷款方面所做的。
Meanwhile, we’re working to hold down the cost of a college education. So we’re partnering with schools like Georgia Tech on innovative ways to increase value -– like your online master’s program in computer science -- which costs just a fraction of the price of an in-classroom program. And I sent Congress a bold new plan to bring down the cost of community college to zero. Because not everybody may be prepared right away to start a four-year university. 与此同时，我们正在努力降低大学教育的成本。所以我们正在与佐治亚理工这样的学校合作，探索创新的方式来提升价值——比如你们的在线计算机科学硕士项目——它的费用只是课堂项目的一小部分。我还向国会提交了一项大胆的新计划，将社区大学的费用降至零。因为不是每个人都能马上准备好进入四年制大学。
But also, in some cases, even if they could, they may choose to get two years of college free, and then be able to transfer the credits for their four-year education. We want to make community college, at minimum, just as free and universal as high school is today. That should be our new baseline. We want to get out ahead of the curve in terms of where we need to go. 但也有一些情况，即使他们可以，他们也可能选择先免费读两年大学，然后再转学分去完成四年制教育。我们希望让社区大学，至少，像今天的高中一样免费和普及。那应该是我们的新基准。我们希望在我们需要去的方向上抢占先机。
Earlier today, I took a new action to make it easier for students to pay for college and pay off their loans. We’re creating a way for you to ask questions about your loans, file a complaint, cut through the bureaucracy, get a faster response. That’s not just from the government, that’s also from the contractors who sometimes service your loans. 今天早些时候，我采取了一项新的行动，让学生更容易支付大学费用和偿还贷款。我们正在创建一种方式，让你们可以就贷款提出问题、提交投诉、突破官僚主义、获得更快的回应。这不仅是来自政府的，也是来自那些有时为你们提供贷款服务的承包商的。
We’re going to require that the businesses that service your loans provide clear information about how much you owe, what your options are for repaying it, and if you’re falling behind, help you get back in good standing with reasonable fees on a reasonable timeline. And if you’re paying stuff off, you should be paying off the high-interest loans first, not the low-interest ones. We’re going to take a hard look at whether we need new laws to strengthen protections for all borrowers, wherever you get your loans from. 我们将要求为你们提供贷款服务的企业提供清晰的信息，说明你们欠了多少钱，你们有哪些还款选择，如果你落后了，帮助你通过合理的费用和合理的时间恢复良好状态。而如果你在还债，你应该先还高息贷款，而不是低息的。我们将认真研究是否需要新的法律来加强对所有借款人的保护，无论你的贷款来自哪里。
So we’re trying to tackle this problem from every angle. There’s no silver bullet. But we’re trying to make sure that across the board, more and more young people can afford to go to college, and then afterwards, aren’t so burdened with debt that you can’t do anything else. We want to make this experience more affordable because you’re not just investing in yourselves, you’re investing in your nation. 所以我们正试图从各个角度解决这个问题。没有灵丹妙药。但我们正在努力确保，全面来看，越来越多的年轻人能够负担得起上大学的费用，并且在毕业后，不会被债务压得喘不过气来，以至于什么都做不了。我们想让这段经历变得更实惠，因为你们不只是在为自己投资，你们也在为你们的国家投资。
But here’s the thing: We’ve got more to do, all of us -- universities, students, parents, financial institutions and, yes, the government, to make sure that you’re not saddled with debt before you even get started in life. That’s something that’s in all of our interests. 但问题是：我们还有更多的事情要做，我们所有人——大学、学生、家长、金融机构，还有，没错，政府——要确保你们不会在人生还没开始时就被债务压垮。这符合我们所有人的利益。
Now, my friends, the Republicans in Congress, are planning to unveil their budget soon. I’m hoping they have something to offer that will help hardworking young people. So far, the education bill that they put forward a couple weeks ago is not a good template, it’s not a good start. I’m hoping it will improve because right now, the way it’s structured, it would let states and cities shuffle education dollars into things like sports stadiums or tax cuts for the wealthy instead of schools. 现在，我的朋友们，国会的共和党人正计划很快公布他们的预算。我希望他们能拿出一些东西来帮助努力工作的年轻人。到目前为止，他们几周前提出的教育法案不是一个好的模板，不是一个好的开始。我希望它能有所改进，因为就目前的结构而言，它会让各州和城市将教育资金挪用到体育场馆或为富人减税之类的事情上，而不是用于学校。
And it would allow states to make even deeper cuts into school districts that need the most support, send even more money to the most well-off school districts. We’d invest less per child by the end of the decade than we do now. So it’s the wrong approach. We’ve got to be working to make sure every child gets a quality education, every student can afford college. 它还会允许各州对最需要支持的学区进行更深的削减，把更多的钱送给最富裕的学区。到本十年末，我们在每个孩子身上的投资将比现在更少。所以这是错误的做法。我们必须努力确保每个孩子都能获得高质量的教育，每个学生都能负担得起大学。
And so we’re going to be reaching out to them, trying to get them to see this is a good investment in our economy, it’s a good investment in our national security. The way that you keep America safe, one of the best, most important ways is to make sure we’ve got a strong economy with a strong workforce. And all of us have a role to play in making that happen. 因此，我们将与他们接触，努力让他们认识到这是对我们经济的良好投资，是对我们国家安全的良好投资。保持美国安全的方式，其中一个最好、最重要的方式就是确保我们拥有强大的经济和强大的劳动力。我们所有人都可以在实现这一目标方面发挥作用。
So in order to spur more of a conversation to get more folks engaged, we’re going to try something new to help do this. It’s not a fancy new program. It’s not -- it doesn’t have a complicated acronym. It doesn’t involve new spending or bureaucracy. It’s just a simple organizing principle that I want all of us to sign onto, a declaration of values –- what I’m calling a Student Aid Bill of Rights. 所以为了推动更多对话，让更多人参与进来，我们将尝试一些新的方法来帮助做到这一点。这不是一个花里胡哨的新项目。它没有——它没有一个复杂的缩写词。它不涉及新的支出或官僚机构。这只是一个简单的组织原则，我希望我们所有人都能签署，一个价值观的宣言——我称之为"学生援助权利法案"。
And it says every student deserves access to a quality, affordable education. Every student should be able to access the resources to pay for college. Every borrower has the right to an affordable repayment plan. Every borrower has the right to quality customer service, reliable information, and fair treatment, even if they struggle to repay their loans. 它说，每个学生都应该有权获得高质量、负担得起的教育。每个学生都应该能够获得支付大学费用的资源。每个借款人都有权获得负担得起的还款计划。每个借款人都有权获得优质的客户服务、可靠的信息和公平的对待，即使他们在偿还贷款方面遇到困难。
It’s a simple set of principles that if everybody signed onto -- Republicans, Democrats, state legislators, university presidents, members of Congress -- it can focus our attention, all these different things that we’re doing, into one simple, basic idea, which is, make sure that when you’re doing the right thing, that your society has got your back and is looking out for you. 这是一套简单的原则，如果每个人都能签署——共和党人、民主党人、州议员、大学校长、国会议员——它就能将我们的注意力，所有这些我们正在做的不同事情，集中到一个简单、基本的理念上，那就是，确保当你在做正确的事情时，你的社会支持你、关心你。
So based on this principle, we’re going to make sure universities are using technology to help students learn at lower costs. We’re going to make sure that loan servicers can find better ways to help borrowers keep up with monthly payments that they can afford. We as a country can do more to invest in Pell grants and community college to make sure quality education is affordable for everybody. 因此，基于这一原则，我们将确保大学利用技术帮助学生以更低的成本学习。我们将确保贷款服务机构能够找到更好的方法，帮助借款人跟上他们能够负担的月度还款。我们作为一个国家可以做更多来投资佩尔助学金和社区大学，以确保每个人都能负担得起高质量的教育。
So we’re going to just keep on moving on every front. And we want everybody who agrees with these principles to sit down and work with us, and figure out how they can make these student rights real. And you’ve got a part to play as well. 所以我们将在各个方面继续前进。我们希望所有认同这些原则的人坐下来与我们合作，弄清楚他们如何才能让这些学生权利成为现实。而你们也有自己的角色要扮演。
We had the great honor of being at Selma this past weekend for the 50th anniversary of the March from Selma. And one of the main points I think that all of us made was change doesn’t happen by itself; it happens because people get organized and mobilized and focused, and they push, and sometimes they disrupt and they make folks uncomfortable, and they ask questions about why is it this way instead of that way. 上周末，我们非常荣幸地出席了塞尔玛游行50周年纪念活动。我认为我们所有人提出的主要观点之一是，变革不会自己发生；它之所以发生，是因为人们组织起来、动员起来、集中精力，他们推动，有时他们扰乱，他们让人们感到不安，他们提出问题：为什么是这样而不是那样？
And I want us to think about access to higher education and affordability of higher education in that same way. I want us to all organize together -- not on a partisan basis, it’s not organizing around an election, it’s organizing around a simple idea that everybody should be able to get behind. 我希望我们以同样的方式来思考高等教育的准入和负担能力问题。我希望我们都一起组织起来——不是以党派为基础，不是围绕选举组织，而是围绕一个每个人都应该支持的简单理念来组织。
And you’re going to have to play the part. Because what we also made the point of this past weekend is young people typically lead the pack with new ideas, with new initiatives, with new focus, with a new vision. 而你们将不得不发挥作用。因为我们上周末还提出的一点是，年轻人通常以新思想、新倡议、新焦点、新愿景走在前列。
So if you agree with the basic values that I outlined, if you believe in a Student Aid Bill of Rights that will help more Americans pay for a quality education, then sign your name to this declaration. 所以如果你认同我提出的基本价值观，如果你相信一份学生援助权利法案将帮助更多美国人支付高质量教育的费用，那就签署这份宣言吧。
You can go to a website, because you guys like tech stuff. You go to: WhiteHouse.gov/CollegeOpportunity -- WhiteHouse.gov/CollegeOpportunity. Tell your families and classmates and professors to do it. I’m going to ask members of Congress, and lenders, and as many business leaders as I can find to sign up. 你们可以去一个网站，因为你们喜欢科技东西。你们去：WhiteHouse.gov/CollegeOpportunity——WhiteHouse.gov/CollegeOpportunity。告诉你的家人、同学和教授也这样做。我会邀请国会议员、贷款机构，以及我能找到的尽可能多的商界领袖来签署。
We’re going to mobilize a coalition around this country to get this process moving, because there are a lot of good ideas right now but they’re stalled, or they’re happening piecemeal, or they’re happening in one university, or they’re happening in one state, and they have to happen everywhere. And we’ve got to mobilize the entire nation to make that happen. 我们将在全国各地动员一个联盟来推动这一进程，因为现在有很多好的想法，但它们被搁置了，或者正在零零碎碎地发生，或者只在一所大学发生，或者只在一个州发生，而它们必须在各地发生。我们必须动员整个国家来实现这一目标。
And it's going to start with students themselves, because if you aren’t asking for something different, if you aren’t asking for help, if you’re not getting mobilized, then folks aren’t going to help you, and then you’ll just be complaining -- especially once you graduate and you start having to write those checks. 而这要从学生自己开始，因为如果你们不要求不同的东西，如果你们不寻求帮助，如果你们不行动起来，那么人们就不会帮助你们，然后你们就只能抱怨——尤其是一旦你们毕业，开始不得不写那些还款支票的时候。
So don’t stop engaging in this issue, even after you graduate, because you’ll be still impacted by it. And in the meantime, you’ve got to study hard, and work hard, and have fun. Make some new discoveries. Inspire us. Lead us. Be the Americans that we need you to be. 所以不要停止参与这个问题，即使在你毕业之后，因为你仍然会受到它的影响。与此同时，你们必须努力学习，努力工作，享受生活。做出一些新发现。激励我们。领导我们。成为我们需要你成为的美国人。
Every American should have the right to go as far as their talents and hard work will take them. That is what college is all about. That is what America is all about. And you embody that basic notion. You are that talent. You are an embodiment of what we hope for: A country that says that everybody, rich, poor, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, man, woman, with disabilities, without -- no matter who you are or where you come from, not only can you succeed but you can help everybody else succeed. That’s the promise that helped us become the greatest nation in the world. 每个美国人都应该有权利尽其才能和努力所及，走得尽可能远。这就是大学的意义所在。这就是美国的意义所在。而你们正体现了这一基本理念。你们就是那种才华。你们体现了我们的希望：一个这样的国家——每个人，无论贫富，黑人白人，西班牙裔亚裔，同性恋异性恋，男人女人，残疾或健全——无论你是谁，无论你来自哪里，你不仅能成功，还能帮助其他人成功。正是这个承诺帮助我们成为了世界上最伟大的国家。
That’s the promise that I need you working for. 这就是我需要你们为之努力的承诺。
Thank you, everybody. God bless you. Thank you, Georgia. 谢谢大家。上帝保佑你们。谢谢你，佐治亚。