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1、2023年美国经典英文演讲100篇A Crisis of Confidence 美国经典英文演讲100篇:A Crisis of Confidence Jimmy Carter Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence delivered 15 July, 1979 AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio. Good Evening: This a special night for me.Exactly three
2、years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States.I promised you a President who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams, and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you.During the past three years
3、 Ive spoken to you on many occasions about national concerns, the energy crisis, reorganizing the government, our nations economy, and iues of war and especially peace.But over those years the subjects of the speeches, the talks, and the pre conferences have become increasingly narrow, focused more
4、and more on what the isolated world of Washington thinks is important.Gradually, youve heard more and more about what the government thinks or what the government should be doing and le and le about our nations hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future.Ten days ago, I had planned to speak to y
5、ou again about a very important subject - energy.For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congre.But as I was preparing to speak, I 1 began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many
6、of you: Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem? Its clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or receion.And I realize more than ever that as President I
7、 need your help.So, I decided to reach out and to listen to the voices of America.I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society - busine and labor, teachers and preachers, governors, mayors, and private citizens.And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, men a
8、nd women like you.It has been an extraordinary ten days, and I want to share with you what Ive heard.First of all, I got a lot of personal advice.Let me quote a few of the typical comments that I wrote down.This from a southern governor: “Mr.President, you are not leading this nation - youre just ma
9、naging the government.” “You dont see the people enough anymore.” “Some of your Cabinet members dont seem loyal.There is not enough discipline among your disciples.” “Dont talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good.” “Mr.President, were in
10、 trouble.Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears.” “If you lead, Mr.President, we will follow.” Many people talked about themselves and about the condition of our nation.This from a young woman in Pennsylvania: “I feel so far from government.I feel like ordinary people are excluded from political
11、 power.” And this from a young Chicano: “Some of us have suffered from receion all our lives.” “Some people have wasted energy, but others havent had anything to waste.” 2 And this from a religious leader: “No material shortage can touch the important things like Gods love for us or our love for one
12、 another.” And I like this one particularly from a black woman who happens to be the mayor of a small Miiippi town: “The big shots are not the only ones who are important.Remember, you cant sell anything on Wall Street unle someone digs it up somewhere else first.” This kind of summarized a lot of o
13、ther statements: “Mr.President, we are confronted with a moral and a spiritual crisis.” Several of our discuions were on energy, and I have a notebook full of comments and advice.Ill read just a few. “We cant go on consuming forty percent more energy then we produce.When we import oil we are also im
14、porting inflation plus unemployment.” “Weve got to use what we have.The Middle East has only five percent of the worlds energy, but the United States has twenty-four percent.” And this is one of the most vivid statements: “Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife.” “There will be ot
15、her cartels and other shortages.American wisdom and courage right now can set a path to follow in the future.” This was a good one: “Be bold, Mr.President.We may make mistakes, but we are ready to experiment.” And this one from a labor leader got to the heart of it: “The real iue is freedom.We must
16、deal with the energy problem on a war footing.” And the last that Ill read: “When we enter the moral equivalent of war, Mr.President, dont iue us BB guns.” These ten days confirmed my belief in the decency and the strength and the wisdom of the American people, but it also bore out some of my longst
17、anding concerns about our nations underlying problems.I know, of course, being President, that government actions and legislation can be very important.Thats why Ive worked hard to put my campaign promises into law, and I have to admit, with just mixed succe.But after listening to the American peopl
18、e, I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world cant fix whats wrong with America.So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a 3 subject even more serious than energy or inflation.I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy.I do not mean o
19、ur political and civil liberties.They will endure.And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might.The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.It is a crisis of confidence.It is a cr
20、isis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the lo of a unity of purpose for our nation.The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the poli
21、tical fabric of America. The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July.It is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people.Confidence in the future has supported
22、 everything else - public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States.Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations.Weve always believed in something called progre.Weve always had a faith that the days of our
23、children would be better than our own.Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy.As a people we know our past and we are proud of it.Our progre has been part of the living history of Amer
24、ica, even the world.We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom; and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose.But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the d
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