"We gathered on this day because we chose hope instead of fear." On January 20, on the steps of the Capitol Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th US president, the inaugural speech made that more than a billion people on the planet and almost 2 million in Washington looked and listened. This was the speech of the country and the world. The New Times publishes her with abbreviations and arranging the subtitles - as we understood, to whom these or other words of Barack Obama were addressed
Barack Obama
44th president of the United States
Fellow citizens
/.../We are experiencing a crisis, and today everyone is aware of this. Our country is at war against those who are everywhere sowing violence and hatred. Our economy is significantly weakened as a result of the greed and irresponsibility of some people, as well as due to the fact that we were not able to make a decisive choice and prepare our country for the new era. People lose housing and work, enterprises are closed. The healthcare system costs us too expensive, our schools do not give sufficient knowledge to many students, and every day brings new evidence that our methods of energy use strengthen our opponents and threaten our planet/ .../ I tell you today: the problems facing us are real. They are serious, and there are a lot of them. They cannot be solved easily and quickly. There will be mistakes, and I will be mistaken. But I want America to know: we can handle them.
Alive and dead
/.../greatness (country) is not given in vain. It must be earned. On our way, we never looked for light roads and were not content with small. It was not for the weak spirit and those who preferred idleness and pleasure that bring wealth and glory. It was a path for those who knew how to take risks and act, who knew how to do business. Sometimes these people received recognition, more often remained in obscurity. But it was thanks to their work that we have passed along a long and thorny road to prosperity and freedom.
For the sake of us, they gathered their simple belongings and set off through the ocean in the hope of starting a new life. For the sake of us, they bent their backs in the diagrams and mastered the West, carried out the blows of the whip and opened the virgin lands.
For us, they fought and died/.../
Again and again, these men and women fought and sacrificed themselves, working to corns in their arms in the desire for a better life. For them, America was more than the ambitions of each separately, something more important than differences in origin, condition or political views.
Voters
/.../Starting from today, we must rise to our feet, shake off the dust and begin to rebuild America.
The state of the economy requires bold and quick actions, and we will take them - not only in order to create new jobs, but also to lay the foundation of new economic growth. We will build roads and bridges, power lines and modern telecommunications that feed the country's economy and connect us together. We will return to science its worthy place in society and applies to achieve technological progress to raise the quality of healthcare and reduce its value. We will achieve that the energy of the Sun, Wind and Earth will drive our cars and nourish the equipment of our enterprises. And we will convert our schools, colleges and universities so that they satisfy the requirements of the new era. All this is affordable for us. And we will do it.
Opponents
Some, however, calls into question the scale of our ambitions, believing that our system will not withstand so many large plans. These people have a short memory. They forgot what our country has already managed to achieve, what free men and women can achieve, united by a common goal, capable of dreaming and committing courageous acts.
/.../The old political disputes, which we have been absorbed for so long, have no more place. Today we think not about whether our government is too cumbersome or too small, but about whether it fulfills its tasks - whether it helps families find a job that is decently paid, medical care that they can afford, whether it provides them with a worthy old age. In those areas where the answer is positive, we will move on. Where the answer will be negative, the programs will be closed. And those who are responsible for the use of state funds will have to give a report in the correct expenditure of money, eradicate bad habits and conduct business in conditions of complete transparency - because only in this case we can restore vital confidence between the people and the government.
Republicans
There is no question for us about what the market is good or evil. He has no equal in creating wealth and expanding the boundaries of freedom, but the current crisis reminded us that without proper supervision, the market can break out of control that the country cannot get rich if it creates favorable conditions only for the rich. The success of our economy has always depended not only on the size of the gross domestic product, but also on whether the well -being comes to all layers of society, from our ability to discover the opportunity to everyone who strives for success, and not from charity, but because this is the most true path to general well -being.
43th US President George Bush
As for defense, we reject a false choice between safety and fidelity to ideals. Our founding fathers in the face of unimaginable dangers constituted a charter that ensures the power of the law and human law, a charter written in the blood of generations. The ideals embedded in it continue to remain a beacon for people around the world, and we will not abandon them for the sake of momentary benefits. And therefore, we declare to the peoples and governments of the whole world that look at us today, from the largest capitals to the village that my father was born: know that America is a friend of all peoples, all men, women and children striving for a peaceful and worthy future, and she is ready to become a leader again. Remember that previous generations defeated fascism and communism not only with the help of missiles and tanks, but also thanks to strong unions and firm beliefs. They understood that power itself was not able to protect us and does not give us the right to do everything we wish. They realized that our power was growing if you use it carefully; The source of security is the justice of our business, the strength of the example, modesty and the ability to self -control.
/.../We will begin the responsible process of leaving Iraq, leaving the country to the Iraqis, and bring to the end difficult work to achieve peace in Afghanistan. Together with old friends and former opponents, we will tirelessly work on a decrease in the nuclear threat and take measures to combat global warming.
Terrorists
We will not ask for forgiveness or make excuses for our lifestyle, but to those who seek to achieve their goals, unleashing terror and killing the innocent, we declare now: we are stronger than the spirit, and we can’t break us; We will not give up, the victory will be behind us.
The Middle East
We are aware that the diversity of society is our power, not weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and unbelievers. The formation of our society was influenced by all languages and cultures brought to our regions from all over the planet. Having gone through the horrors of the civil war and segregation, having left the dark times of history more powerful and uniform than ever before, we cannot but believe that old hatred will disappear sooner or later, that tribal differences will soon dissolve/ .../ In relations with the Islamic world, we will look for new ways based on mutual interests and mutual respect.
Rulers of Russia and Venezuela
Leaders who seek to sow the seeds of the conflict or accuse the West of problems existing in their societies, we say: know your peoples will judge you by what you build, and not by what you destroy. Those who hold on to power through corruption, lies and deception, due to the suppression of the disagreement, we say: in order not to stay overboard the story, lift the fist, and we will hold out your hand.
Africa
We promise the peoples of poor countries to work with them so that their agricultural lands bring crops so that people have access to pure water to feed the hungry and give freedom to hungry for it.
Europe
Those states, which, like our country, live in relative prosperity, we say that we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering of people outside our borders and cannot consume world resources without caring about the consequences. For the world has changed, and we must change with it/.../
Young Americans
What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility, meaning that every American must realize his duty to himself, to the country and the world/...//
This is the duty and right of every citizen.
This is the source of our confidence - in the realization that God calls for each of us to determine his fate.
African Americans
This is the meaning of our freedom and our symbol of faith, and thanks to this, our magnificent Mall has now become a place of celebration for men, women and children representing all races and religions, and therefore a person whose father could refuse to serve in a local restaurant sixty years ago and takes a sacred oath.
Fellow citizens
Let's remember on this day who we are and what a long way we have done. In the year of the birth of America, in the coldest month of the year, a small group of patriots gathered around the fading bonfires on the shore of the river with an ice. The capital was abandoned. The enemy has come. The snow was covered with blood spots. And at the moment when the outcome of our revolution was in question, the founder of our state ordered the following words to read the fighters:
“Let the descendants find out that in the midst of winter, when only hope and valor could survive, in the face of the general danger of the city and the village, all as one and met it.” 1 Americans, we will remember these immortal words in the face of a common danger, in this difficult winter. Let hope and valor again help us to cope with the cold movements and storms that expect us. Let the children of our children say that in the face of the tests we have not gone out of the way, did not turn back and did not flinch. Having fixed the eyes into the distance and with God's blessing, we carried the great gift of freedom and passed it on to the future generations.
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1 These words, written by Thomas Payne in the days of the American revolution, George Washington ordered those who went to fight the British troops in the winter of 1776.
