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1.I have a dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.This Momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.So we have come here today to dramatize the shameful condition.In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check.When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of independence, they were signing a promiory note to which every American was to fall heir.This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happine.It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promiory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.We refuse to believe that there are “insufficient funds” in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.So we've come to cash this check-a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.I say to you today.my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up.live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia.sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners, will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.I have a dream, that one day even the state of Miiippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppreion, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low;the rough places will be made plain;and the crooked places will be made straight;and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.This is our hope.So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tenneee.Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Miiippi, from every mountainside.Let freedom ring and when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.”
2.NEW YORK SENATE RACE SPEECH
By HILARY CLINTON
You know, you know, we started this great effort on a sunny July morning in Pinders Corner on Pat and Liz Moynihan's beautiful farm and 62 counties, 16 months, 3 debates, 2 opponents, and 6 black pantsuits later, because of you, here we are.You came out and said that iues and ideals matter, jobs matter, downstate and upstate, health care matters, education matters, the environment matters, social security matters, a woman's right to choose matters.It all matters and I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you, New York!
Thank you for opening up your minds and your hearts, for seeing the poibility of what we could do together for our children and for our future here in this state and in our nation.I am profoundly grateful to all of you for giving me the chance to serve you.I willabout overcrowded or crumbling schools, about the struggle to care for growing children and aging parents, about the continuing challenge of providing equal opportunity for all and about children moving away from their home towns because good jobs are so hard to find in upstate New York.Now I've worked on iues like these for a long time, some of them for 30 years, and I am determined to make a difference for all of you.You see, I believe our nation owes every responsible citizen and every responsible family the tools that they need to make the most of their own lives.That's the basic bargain.I'll do my best to honor in the United States Senate.And to those of you who did not support me, I want you to know that I will work in the Senate for you and for all New Yorkers.And to those of you who worked so hard and never lost faith even in the toughest times, I offer you my undying gratitude.3.The 73rd Annual Academy Awards
Steve Martin(MC): Thank you very much.Thank you very much.You know, when they asked me, back in January, if I would host the Oscars, the first thought that came into my mind was，would there be enough time for my face lift to heal.And right now, all over the world, there are eight hundred million people watching us right now.And anyone of them is thinking the exact same thoughtnamele, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankne and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves, which is eential to victory.And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.In such a spirit on my part and on yours, we face our common difficulties.They concern, thank God, only material things.Values have shrunken to fantastic levels;taxes have risen, our ability to pay has fallen, government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income, the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade;the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side, farmers find no markets for their produce, and the savings of many years and thousands of families are gone.More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equal and great number toil with little return.Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.And yet, our distre comes from no failure of substance, we are stricken by no plague of locusts.Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have so much to be thankful for Nature surrounds us with her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it.Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornne and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure and have abdicated.Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.True, they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition.Faced by a failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money.Stripped of the lure of profit by which they induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortation, pleading tearfully for restored confidence.They only know the rules of a generation of self seekers.They have no vision, and when there is no vision, the people perish.Yes, the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization.We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.A measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social value, more noble than mere monetary profits.Happine lies not in the mere poeion of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative efforts, the joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us, if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered on to, but to minister to ourselves, to our fellow men.Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of succe goes hand in hand with the abandonment of a false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profits, and there must be an end to our conduct in banking and in busine, which too often has given to a sacred trust the likene of callous and selfish wrong-doing.Small wonder, that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredne of our obligation, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance.Without them it cannot live.Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone.This nation is asking for action, and action now.Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.This is no unsolvable problem if we take it wisely and courageously.It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.Hand in hand with that, we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution in an effort to provide better use of the land for those best fitted for the land.18.First inaugural Addre(B)(Franklin D.Roosevelt)Mar.4, 1933
Yes the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the value of the agricultural product and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities.It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loes through fore closures of our small homes and our farms.It can be helped by insistence that the federal, the state, and the local government act forthwith on the demands that their costs be drastically reduce.It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical and unequal.It can be helped by national planning for, and supervision of all forms of transportation, and of communications, and other utilities that have a definitely public character.There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it.We must act, we must act quickly.And finally in our progre toward a resumption of work, we require two safeguards against the return of the evils of the old order;there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments;there must be an end to speculation with other people's money;and there must be provisions for an adequate but sound currency.These, my friends, are the lines of attack.I shall presently urge upon a new Congre in special seion, detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall seek the immediate aistance of the 48 states.Through this program of action, we addre ourselves to putting our own national house in order, and making income balance outflow our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and neceity secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy.I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first.I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic.It is the insistence, as a first consideration upon the inter-dependence of the various elements in all parts of the United States of Americahigher standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought higher test scores, and higher graduation rates.More than three million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.Incomes are rising acro the board.Our air and water are cleaner.Our food and drinking water are safer.And more of our precious land has been preserved, in the continental United States, than at any time in 100 years.America has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner of the globe.I'm very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of leadership to a new president, with America in such a strong position to meet the challenges of the future.Tonight, I want to leave you with three thoughts about our future.First, America must maintain our record of fiscal responsibility.Through our last four budgets, we've turned record deficits to record surpluses, and we've been able to pay down $600 billion of our national debt, on track to be debt free by the end of the decade for the first time since 1835.Staying on that course will bring lower interest rates, greater prosperity and the opportunity to meet our big challenges.If we choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the baby boomers, invest more in our future and provide tax relief.Second, because the world is more connected every day in every way, America's security and prosperity require us to continue to lead in the world.At this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom that ever before.Our alliances are stronger than ever.People all around the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom and security.The global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.But the forces of integration that have created these good opportunities also make us more subject to global forces of destruction, to terrorism, organized crime and narco-trafficking, the spread of deadly weapons and disease, the degradation of the global environment.The expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around the world who live on the knife's edge of survival.This global gap requires more than compaion.It requires action.Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.In his first inaugural addre, Thomas Jefferson warned of entangling alliances.But in our times, America cannot and must not disentangle itself from the world.If we want the world to embody our shared values, then we must aume a shared responsibility.If the wars of the 20th century, especially the recent ones in Kosovo and Bosnia, have taught 20 us anything, it is that we achieve our aims by defending our values and leading the forces of freedom and peace.We must embrace boldly and resolutely that duty to lead, to stand with our allies in word and deed, and to put a human face on the global economy so that expanded trade benefits all people in all nations, lifting lives and hopes all acro the world.Third, we must remember that America cannot lead in the world unle here at home we weave the threads of our coat of many colors into the fabric of one America.As we become ever more diverse, we must work harder to unite around our common values and our common humanity.We must work harder to overcome our differences.In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairne and dignity, regardle of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation and regardle of when they arrived in our country, always moving toward the more perfect union of our founders' dreams.Hillary, Chelsea and I join all Americans in wishing our very best to the next president, George W.Bush, to his family and his administration in meeting these challenges and in leading freedom's march in this new century.As for me, I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead.My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of service, I hope, are not.In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher or a covenant more sacred than that of president of the United States.But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen.Thank you.God ble you, and God ble America.22.Speech by Vice FM Wang Guangya at ABAC Luncheon
Mr.Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen，It is a pleasure to meet you, friends from the Asia-Pacific busine community in this thriving city of Shanghai.And I am delighted to have this opportunity to discu with you the future development of the Asia-Pacific region and the world at large.How should the world evolve in the new century? Where should the world be heading for? What should the Asia-Pacific look like in the future? These are the questions we should think very hard and addre with a vision and practical measures.The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius once said, “Peace and harmony are the supreme virtues of heaven and earth”.This maxim may well reflect man's long-cherished aspiration for peace, tranquility, development and prosperity.However, the world is not tranquil and is still plagued by regional conflicts and flagrant terrorism.The September the 11th terrorist attacks have disrupted world peace and stability, and terrorism has become a global scourge.The history of human civilization, mankind's succees and failures, sufferings and glories, have left us a profound leon.The realities of today have given us a mandate-a mandate to usher in a new era.We must bear in mind the universal desire of the people for peace, development and cooperation.We must seek to create a new era when disputes are replaced by consultations, confrontation by dialogue, when mutual respect prevails and different cultures and civilizations develop side by side in this diverse and colorful world, and when people throughout the world live in peace and enjoy development and prosperity, free from terrorist threats.With the advent of the 21st century, economic globalization is gathering pace.Science and technology are advancing rapidly and have become an important driving force behind the world economic growth.But unfortunately, this proce is accompanied by a widening gap between the North and the South, the rich and poor, and an uneven development among countries and regions.It is therefore eential to have a correct aement of what positive impact economic globalization and scientific and technological advancement have had and may continue to have on the expansion of productive forces, creation of social wealth, diemination of knowledge and civilization and even world peace and stability so that we can seize the historical opportunity and bring about a leapfrog development.It is equally eential, if not more, to addre the negative effects of economic globalization and scientific and technological development and work real hard for common development and prosperity of all members of society.To this end, the whole world should join hands to ensure that all nations enjoy the benefits of scientific and technological progre, economic globalization and the New Economy through full participation and cooperation.The Asia-Pacific region achieved great economic progre in the last century, playing an important role in boosting regional and global economic development.This is attributable to the concerted endeavor, closer cooperation, pioneering work and enterprising spirit of APEC members and all other economies in the region.In the new century, the Asia-Pacific economic development is faced with both opportunities and challenges.The region-wide and world economic slowdown and, particularly, the September 11 attacks have added to the difficulties and uncertainties of our regional economy.Having said that, I wish to stre that in the long run, the Asia-Pacific economic prospect is broad and bright.As long as we seize the opportunities brought by economic globalization and scientific and technological revolution, stick to open regionalism, enhance regional cooperation and adopt strong macro-economic measures to speed up restructuring, we will be able to overcome difficulties and open up new dimensions for growth and prosperity in our region.We have full confidence in that.The theme of APEC 2001 is so designed as to reflect this historical need.If we are to promote the development of a multilateral trading system and promote greater openne of our region, we must strengthen trade and investment liberalization.If we are to ensure that all APEC members benefit from economic globalization and the New Economy, we must enhance capacity building to open up opportunities for future development.If we are to create a sound environment for regional economic development, we must have dialogue on financial policies.That is why “Achieving common prosperity through participation and cooperation” has been made the theme of APEC 2001.The APEC Busine Advisory Council(ABAC), the most important organization representing APEC busine community, has since its inception put forward a series of constructive ideas and recommendations concerning the two main areas of APEC cooperationI want to say thank you to everybody who these past months and years have helped, guided and given me so much.I'm truly, truly grateful.I'm terribly happy.Interviewer(in the movie scene):“Which of the cities visited did your highne enjoy the most?”
Hepburn:“Each in its own way was unforgettable, It would be difficult to-Rome, by all means Rome.I will cherish my visit here, in memory-as long as I live.”
35.Vivian Leigh
“Ladies and Gentlemen, please forgive me if my words are inadequate in thanking you for your very great kindne.If I were to mention all those who have shown me such wonderful generosity through Gone With the Wind, I should have to entertain you with an oration as long as Gone With the Wind itself.So, if I may, I should like to devote my thanks on this occasion to that conversant figure of energy, courage and very great kindne in whom all points of Gone With the Wind meet, Mr.David Selznick.”
36.George Bernard Shaw
“Ptolemy made a universe which lasted 1400 years.Newton also made a universe which has lasted 300 years.Einstein has made a universe and I can't tell you how long that will last.” 37.Marilyn Monroe
Male: And you will continue your career?
Monroe: Oh, tonight I think I'm going to England.Male: Yes?
Monroe: Yes, I'll be making the “Sleeping Prince” with Laurence Olivier.38.Madonna
“You know I think I'm in a state of shock, I know, I know this was over, but it's, it's like last week in Spain, I really felt like I was going to have a nervous breakdown.I couldn't take the crowds outside, I couldn't do the shows, it was too hot.Everything was getting to me and I thought, oh, I'm just.I think I am getting ready for the depreion of what I'm going to feel when the tour's over with.But I really didn't feel emotional last night.I know everybody else did and everyone else was crying.But I didn't feel emotional, it was like it had already ended for me, in fact it was like you know someone is dying, you have to make your peace, kind of before they die.I've done this with close friends of mine.I make my peace with it before it happens, so I don't get really hurt.And then, when it happens, it's like, I don't feel anything, but I know I'm going to feel something later.I just don't know when that's going to be.Because it's a protection device, I hope I'm in a safe place when it happens.For some strange reason, I failed to realize that the first leg of the tour was during the rainy season in Japan.So, for three straight weeks we performed the show in a blizzard.But the dancers are so excited to be performing for an audience.The world could have been blowing up and they wouldn't have cared.I, on the other hand, was not in the mood for Eskimos on ice.And I think the only thing that kept me from slashing my wrists was the thought of coming back to America and doing show the way it was meant to be.By the time we left Japan, I found myself growing really attached to the dancers and I started feeling like a mother to them.When we finally got to America, I got the chance to meet the mothers of all the children that I had temporarily claimed as my own, the parents were usually as colorful as their kids.I think, I've unconsciously, chosen people that are emotionally crippled in some way, or who need mothering in some way.Because I think, it comes very natural to me.That fulfills I think I need in me to be mothered.Their innocence, the innocence of the dancers moved me, you know they're not taken in the least, they haven't been anywhere.This is the opportunity of their lives, and they know that they suffered a great deal in their lives whether with their families, or just being poor or whatever.And I wanted to give them the thrill of their lives, I wanted to impre them, I wanted to love them.”
39.Mahatma Gandhi
“I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.I know the value of discipline and truth.I must ask you to believe me when I say that I have never made a statement of this description that the maes of India, if it became neceary, would resort to violence.”
40.Elvis Presley
“Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.You're a good audience.This next song is a song that we've been doing recently, it's, it's one of my first records.And we've been doing it a lot lately because we've had no requests for it, ah, we've had a lot of requests for it.It's called 'Trying to get to You'.It's funny my band is yelling 'turn around, turn around'.”
41.The Carpenter's
Question: Is it hard to sing together for a longtime.Do you have any kind of fight between you? Karen: No.Richard: “No, Karen and I have always gotten along very well, and actually it works to our favor.” Karen: Yeah, it's an aet being brother and sister.We get along very, very wellah-he can be thinking something or just give me some kind of a work and I know what he's thinking and the opposite for him too.Question: What does music mean to you? What does music in general, what does it mean to you? Karen: Ah, well I, music is very, very important to both my life and Richard's life.But, ah, we consider ourselves very lucky to be spending our life doing what we really love to do.Ah, I really enjoy singing and I love to listen to music, and, ah, if there wasn't music in my life I would be very miserable.Question: OK and ah, did you realize that your Friends Club here in Brazil was so enthusiastic? Richard: “No, no, the Friends Club, no.We had no idea that it was as enthusiastic as it is.In fact we were kind, just about diected trying to get into the car.Reminds me of the, ah, the Fan Club in Japan.” Richard: “The same kind of enthusiasm”.Karen: “Very exciting.”
42.Beatles
John Lennon: And then we went back to Liverpool and we caught him working, they all thought we were German, we knew he was from Hamburg and that he'd speak good English.James MaCartney: “Brian suggested that we just sort of wore ordinary suits so we just got what we thought were quite good suits, just got rid of the leather gear.” George Harrison: “We do like the fans, and enjoy reading the publicity about us but from time to time you don't realize that it's actually about yourself.” Ringo Starr: “And once when the boys came for me, they popped in to see me when we dined, you know, we ought to go out the back because, you know, there's twenty or thirty outside.And they wouldn't believe me, but you know, they were knocking, saying they were for the autographs.”
43.Backstreet Boys
A.J.Mc Lean: “When I was about six, I started in the acting career, doing theatre and commercials and extra work and stuff like that and they turned around to my favor, and about two and a half years ago we got this group together, and I got to use a gift that God gave me and now I've been
using it ever since.” Nick Carter: “Hi I'm Nick and I'm the youngest member of the group.I'm fifteen.I'm originally from Jamestown, New York.It's just upstate it's not like the big part, the big city.Then I moved to Tampa, Florida which right now where I resign.” Others: “Resign? Resign? Retire in Tampa? Reside?” Nick Carter: “Reside, yeah that's it.Oh man, I always me up.I'm sorry.” Howard Dorough: “The first time I remember really wanting to start and sing is when I was around six years old.And I think the very first print I ever did was the Wizard of Oz.I was actually one of the lollipop little guys.So ever since then I realized from that point on I wanted to do like a singing and acting career.” Kevin Richardson: Music's always been a big part of our family.We started in church just singing hymns.I always loved to sing them.It's just something that came easily.Brian Littrell : I would have to say I was around three or four when I just started like singing along with things then taking it seriously probably about five or six.I was standing up in front of audiences at churches and singing in front of three thousand people and be like this tall or so.It was a lot of fun.It was just a gift and I enjoyed it.We recorded our first single.We've Got It Going on actually in Stockholm, Sweden.That was an experience for us.It was written for us by Dennis Pop who wrote and produced for Ace of Base.He wrote “The Sign” and “All That She Wants”.So he's had some pretty like succe wise like universal succe, I gue you could say because Ace of Base is pretty big in the States as well as Europe.That was an experience for us because it was kind of like we didn't have the opportunity for him to come to us, so we had to go to him and it turned out to be you know “We've got it going on” and it has our name in it-“Jam on because Back Street's got it.”
44.Resignation Speech
This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation.Each time I have done so to discu with you some matters that I believe affected the national interest.And all the decisions I have made in my public life I have always tried to do what was best for the nation.Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every poible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congre to justify continuing that effort.As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was neceary to see the constitutional proce through to its conclusion, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult proce, and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served.And there is no longer a need for the proce to be prolonged.I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so.But the interests of the nation must always come before any personal considerations.From the discuions I have had with Congreional and other leaders I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congre that I would consider neceary to back the very difficult
decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require.I have never been a quitter.To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body.But as President I must put the interests of America first.America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congre, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congre in a period when our entire focus should be on the great iues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home.Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.45.Addre At Jackson Day Dinner
Now I want to say something very important to you about this iue of morality in government.I stand for honest government.I've worked for it.I've probably done more for it than any other President.(Applause)
I've done more than any other President to reorganize the government on an efficient basis and to extend the Civil Service merit system.I hate corruption not only because bad in itself, but also because it is the deadly enemy of all things the Democratic Party has been doing all these years.I hate corruption everywhere, but I hate it most of all in a Democratic office holder because that is a betrayal of all that the Democratic Party stands for.(Applause)
Here's the reason: to me morality in government means more than a mere absence of wrong doing.It means a government that is fair to all.I think it is just as immoral for the Congre to enact special tax favors into law as it is for a tax official to connive on a crooked tax return.(Applause)
It is just as immoral to use the law making power of the government to enrich the few at the expense of the many as it is to steal money from the public treasury.That is stealing money from the public treasury.All of us know, of course, about the scandals and corruption of the Republican office holders in the 1920s, but to my mind the Veterans Administration scandals in those days and the Teapot Dome Steal than the Tax laws of Andrew Mellon or the attempt to sell Muscle Shoals to private owners.(Applause)
Legislation that favored the greed and monopoly and the treachery of Wall Street was a from of corruption that did the country four times as much harm as Teapot Dome ever did.Private, selfish interests are always trying to corrupt the government in this way.Powerful financial groups are always trying to get favors for themselves.Now the Democratic Administration has been fighting against these efforts to corrupt the powers of government.We haven't always won, but we have never surrendered and we never will.(Applause)
For all these years we've been fighting to use our natural resources for the benefit of the public;to develop our forests and our public power reserves and our water power for the benefit of all;to raise the incomes of all our citizens;to protect the framer and the worker against the power of monopoly.And where have the Republicans been in this fight for morality in government? Do they
come out and vote with us to keep the special interests from robbing the public? Not at all!Most of them are on the other side.The same thing when you come to question the conduct of government officials.The Republicans make a great whoop and holler about the honesty of Federal employees, but they are usually the first to show up in a government office asking for special favors for private interests and in raising cane if they don't get them.(Applause)
These Republican gentlemen can't have it both ways.They can't be for morality on Tuesday and Thursday, and then be for special privileges for their clients on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.The pre recently, for a wonder, has been giving some facts on the subjects that have been very hard to get at.I'm disgusted with their efforts to discredit and blacken the character and reputation of the whole federal Service.We have a higher percentage of Federal employees under the Civil Service than ever before and on the whole they are a freer, better type of men and women than we have ever had in the service before.(Applause)
It's just as much our duty to protect the innocent as it is to punish the guilty.If a man is accused, he ought to have his day in court and I don't mean a kangaroo court, either.(Applause)
I hate injustice just as much as I hate corruption.Of course, we must always work to keep our government clean.Our Democratic Senators and Congremen have been working and I have been working to clean up bad conditions where they exist and to devise procedures and systems to prevent them in the future.And I would like to have the help in this fight from everybody, Democrats and Republicans alike!
I've just got one reorganization plan through Congre and I'm going to send up some more plans to the Congre soon to put more of our Federal officials under Civil Service and out of politics!I'd like to see how many of the Republicans vote for them.Well, I don't think the “Black is White” campaign of the Republican Party is going to succeed.I think that voters are going to see through the holier than thou disguise that our Republicans friends are putting on.All the tricks of Republican propaganda aren't going to make the people forget that the Democratic Party has been working to their welfare.(Applause)
We are working for the welfare of the farmer.We hold to the ideal that goes back to Jefferson: that a farmer should have the opportunity to own his farm, to share in the benefits of scientific progre, and to secure a fair income for his efforts.The Democratic Party is working for the succe of our free enterprise system.We have worked to prevent monopoly, to give small busine-the small busineman-a fair chance, and to develop our natural resources for all the people and not just for the favored few.The Democratic Party is working for the welfare of labor.We have worked for good wages in our legislation, for unemployment compensation, arid for fair labor relations laws.The Democratic Party's dedicated to fair opportunities, for decent living conditions, to a chance to educate their children, to have good medical services and reasonable provision for retirement.That is why we have worked for good Social Security laws, for better education and health services, for good housing and for equal rights and opportunities for all our people regardle of color, religion, or national origin.(Applause)
Above all the Democratic Party is working for peace on earth and goodwill among men.We believe that was is not inevitable;that peace can be won;that free men of all lands can find a way to live together in the world as good neighbors.That is why we've been willing to sacrifice to stop
aggreion;willing to send our money and our goods to help men in other countries stand up against tyranny;willing to fight in Korea or WW III before it begins.For if the bloody harvest of a world was were to begin anew most of us would never see a peaceful world again.This is the record of the Democratic Party.It is a proud record and an honorable record.It is record of progre, of actions that are right because they are solidly founded on American ideals.Whoever the Democratic nominates for president this year, he will have this record to run upon.I shall not be a candidate for reelection.I have served my country long and I think efficiently and honestly.I shall not accept a renomination.I do not feel that it is my duty to spend another four years in the White House.(Sounds of Disapproval)
We must, we must always remember the things the Democratic Party has done and the high ideals that have made it great.We must be tree to its principles and keep it foremost in service of the people.If we do that, we can be sure there will be a Democratic President in the White House for the next four years.46.Tribute to Diana
I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock.“We are all united not only in our desire to play our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so.For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feet that they too lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning.It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today.Diana was the very eence of compaion, of duty, of style, of beauty.All over the world she was a symbol of selfle humanity.All over the world, a standard bearer for the right of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcend nationality.Someone with a natural nobility who was clale and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you but half a life.We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all.Only now that you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult.We have all despaired at our lo over the past week and only the strength of the meage you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to more forward.There is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory, there is no need to do so.You stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint.Indeed to sanctify your memory would be to mi out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor, with a laugh that bent you double.Your joy for life transmitted wherever your took your smile and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes.Your boundle energy which you could barely contain.But your greatest gift was you intuition and it was a gift you used wisely.This is what underpinned all your other wonderful attributes and if we look to analyze what it was about you that had such a wide appeal we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all
our lives.Without your God-given sensitivity we would be immerse in greater ignorance at he anguish of Aides and HIV sufferers, the plight of the homele, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of landmines.Diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feeling of suffering that made it poible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected.And here we come to another truth about her.For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release herself from deep feeling of unworthine of which her eating disorders were merely a symptom.The world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability whilst admiring her for her honesty.The last time I saw Diana was on July 1, her birthday in London, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a special charity fundraising evening.She sparkled of course, but I would rather cherish the days I spent with her in March when she came to visit me and my children in our home in South Africa.I am proud of the fact apart from when she was on display meeting President Mandela we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting a single picture of her that meant a lot to her.There were days I will always treasure.It was as if we had been transported back to our childhood when we spent such an enormous amount of time together the two youngest in the family.Fundamentally she had not changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents' homes with me at weekends.It is a tribute to her level-headedne and strength that despite the most bizarre-like life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself.There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers.I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down.It is baffling.My own and only explanation is that genuine goodne is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.It is a point to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this a girl given the name of the ancient godde of hunting was, in the end, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys William and Harry from a similar fate and I do this here Diana on your behalf.We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.And beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.We fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born and will always respect and encourage, them in their royal role but we, like you, recognize the need for them, to
experience as many different aspects of life as poible to arm them spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead.I know you would have expected nothing le from us.William and Harry, we all cared desperately for you today.We are all chewed up with the sadne at the lo of a woman who was not even our mother.How great your suffering is, we cannot even imagine.I would like to end by thanking God for the small mercies he has shown us at this dreadful time.For taking Diana at her most beautiful and radiant and when she had joy in her private life.About all we gibe thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.47.Winston Churchill：
The Ruian danger is therefore our danger and the danger of the United States.Just as the cause of any Ruian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free people in every quarter of the globe.Let us learn the leons already taught by such cruel experience.Let us re-double our exertion and strike with united strength while life and power remain.48.Madeleine Albright
Barbara Walters: With all the different challenges facing you, if you could accomplish ONE thing as Secretary of State, what would you like it to be? Albright: Well, it would be, frankly, is to have the American people understand that foreign policy is domestic policy.That there is no line between foreign and domestic policy.we are part of a globe and we have to adjust to it and America is still the best place in the world to live.49.Elizabeth Taylor
Barbara Walters: When you hear people saying, ”Elizabeth Taylor, now she's a legend.“ Elizabeth Taylor: That always sounds to me like an obituary Um, I don't feel dead yet.People have asked me why I don't write a book because I'm still living it.I'm still, my life is still writing chapters.I'm not ready to sit and contemplate the past.I'm to busy living the present.I'm looking forward to the future.50.Demi Moore
Barbara Walters: Demi, I wanted to ask you, you were paid 12 and a half million dollars for this film Striptease, what does it mean to be the highest priced female in the busine now? Demi Moore: First of all, it is very meaningful in this busine for a women.It just so happened that it happened to me but it doesn't matter that it was me.It could have been anyone of us.I mean it's nice that it was me, and it's a nice kind of ego boost and it's flattering, but the fact is the more important element to it and the thing that makes me feel very proud is that the fact that they were willing to step up and say that what I was gonna contribute to this film was worth what they wanted to pay me, it means the perception of all women in Hollywood changed as of that moment
as did their salaries.And for that I feel extremely, extremely proud.51.Madonna
Madonna: Detroit was definitely the hardest place we went to on the tour.On an emotional level, I mean, God, going home is, well it's just not really that easy for me.You know people always talk about how starring changes you, but they never talk about how it can change the people close to you.I hadn't been to the cemetery since I was a young girl.We used to go right after she died.I don't know my mother's death was just all a big mystery to me when I was a child and none really explained it so, what I remember most about my mother was that she was, she was very kind and very gentle and very feminine, I mean, I don't know, I gue, she just seemed like an angel to me, but I suppose everybody thinks their mother is an angel when they're five.Ah, I also know she was really religious, so I never really understood why she was taken away from us.It just seems so unfair.I, never thought that she'd done something wrong.So often times I'd wonder what I have done wrong.52.Vincent
Starry starry night Paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkne in my soul Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land
*Now I understand what you try to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry starry night Flaming flowers that bright blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Repeat * For they could not love you But still your love was true And when no hope was left inside on that starry starry night
You took your life as lovers often do But I could have told you, Vincent This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
Starry starry night Portraits hung in empty halls Framele heads on namele walls With eyes that watch the world and can't forget Like the strangers that you've met The ragged man in ragged clothes The silver thorn of bloody rose Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will
53.My American Journey
Written and Read by Colin Powell
Neverthele, I do not unequivocally rule out a political future.If I ever do decide to enter politics, however, it will not be because of high popularity ratings, but because I have a vision for this country.Frankly, the present atmosphere does not make entering public service especially attractive.I find that civility is being driven from our political discourse.For all the present sensitivity over correctne, we seem to have lost our sense of shame as a society.We say we are appalled by the rise of sexually transmitted disease, by the wave of teenage pregnancies, by violent crime.Yet we drench ourselves in depictions of explicit sex and crime on television.In the movies and in pop music.How do we find our way again? How do we reestablish moral standards? How do we end the ethnic fragmentation that is making us an increasingly hyphenated people? How do we restore a sense of family to our national life? On a speech circuit, I tell a story that goes to the heart of America's longing.The ABC correspondent Sam Donaldson was interviewing a young African-American solider in a tank platoon on the eve of battle in Desert Storm.Donaldson asked, ”How do you think the battle will go? Are you afraid?“
”We'll do okay.We're well trained.And I'm not afraid,“ the GI answered, gesturing toward his buddies around him.”I'm not afraid because I'm with my family.“
The other soldiers shouted: ”Tell him again.He didn't hear you.“
The soldier repeated: ”This is my family and we'll take care of each other."
That story never fails to touch me or the audience.It is a metaphor for what we have to do as a nation.We have to start thinking of America as a family.We have to stop screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for, and sharing with each other.We have to stop continually criticizing, which is the cry of the ideologue, and instead get back to the can-do attitude that made America.We have to keep trying, and risk failing, in order to
solve this country's problems.We can not move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent, and uniquely good about America.40
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