Thank you! Oh, thank you all! Thank you so very, very much. It is wonderful to be here with all of you.
To be in New York with my family, with so many friends, including many New Yorkers who gave me the honor of serving them in the Senate （参议院）for eight years.
To be right across the water from the headquarters（总部） of the United Nations, where I represented our country many times.
To be here in this beautiful park dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt’s enduring vision of America, the nation we want to be.
And in a place…with absolutely no ceilings.（没有限制）
You know, President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are a testament（圣约） to our nation’s unmatched aspirations and a reminder of our unfinished work at home and abroad. His legacy（遗产） lifted up（激励） a nation and inspired presidents who followed. One is the man I served as Secretary of State, Barack Obama, and another is my husband, Bill Clinton.
Two Democrats （民主党人士）guided by – Oh, that will make him so happy. They were and are two Democrats guided by the fundamental American belief that real and lasting prosperity must be built by all and shared by all.
President Roosevelt called on every American to do his or her part,
and every American answered. He said there’s no mystery about what it takes to build a strong and prosperous America: “Equality of opportunity…Jobs for those who can work…Security for those who need it…The ending of special privilege for the few结束只有少数人享有的特权…The preservation of civil liberties for all…a wider and constantly rising standard of living.”
That still sounds good to me.
It’s America’s basic bargain（日常行为准则）. If you do your part, you ought to be able to get ahead如果你想尽职尽责，你就必须敢为人先. And when everybody does their part, America gets ahead too如果人人各司其职，那美国就步步领先了。.
That bargain inspired generations of families, including my own. It’s what kept my grandfather going to work in the same Scranton （斯克兰顿）lace mill 鞋带厂every day for 50 years.
It’s what led my father to believe that if he scrimped节省 and saved, his small business – printing drapery fabric（染布厂） in Chicago – could provide us with a middle-class life. And it did.
When President Clinton honored the bargain, we had the longest peacetime expansion in history, a balanced budget, and for the first time in decades we all grew together, with the bottom 20 percent of workers increasing their incomes by the same percentage as the top 5 percent. When President Obama honored the bargain, we pulled back from
the brink of Depression, saved the auto industry, provided health care to 16 million working people, and replaced the jobs we lost faster than the historical average after a financial crash.
But, it’s not 1941, or 1993, or even 2009. We face new challenges in our economy and our democracy.
We’re still working our way back from a crisis that happened because time-tested久经考验的 values were replaced by false promises. Instead of an economy built by every American, for every American, we were told that if we let those at the top pay lower taxes and bend the rules, their success would trickle down（惠及） to everyone else.
What happened?
Well, instead of a balanced budget with surpluses that could have eventually paid off （偿还）our national debt（国债）, the Republicans twice cut taxes for the wealthiest, borrowed money from other countries to pay for two wars, and family incomes dropped. You know where we ended up.
Except it wasn’t the end.
As we have since our founding, Americans made a new beginning. You worked extra shifts, took second jobs, postponed（延期） home repairs…you figured out how to make it work. And now people are beginning to think about their future again – going to college, starting a business, buying a house, finally being able to put away （储存）
something for retirement.
So we’re standing again. But, we all know we’re not yet running the way America should.
You see corporations making record profits, with CEOs making record pay, but your paychecks have barely budged.你的薪水基本上没变化
While many of you are working multiple jobs to make ends meet, you see the top 25 hedge fund managers making more than all of America’s kindergarten teachers combined. And, often paying a lower tax rate.
So, you have to wonder: “When does my hard work pay off? When does my family get ahead?”
“When?”
I say now.
Prosperity can’t be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can’t be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain too. You brought our country back.
Now it’s time – your time to secure the gains and move ahead.
And, you know what?
America can’t succeed unless you succeed.
That is why I am running for President of the United States.
Here…here, on Roosevelt Island, I believe we have a continuing rendezvous with destiny命运共同体. Each American and the country we cherish.
I’m running to make our economy work for you and for every American.
For the successful and the struggling.
For the innovators and inventors.
For those breaking barriers in technology and discovering cures for diseases.突破技术障碍的科研人员和发现疾病治疗方法的医护工作者 For the factory workers and food servers who stand on their feet all day.
For the nurses who work the night shift.
For the truckers who drive for hours and the farmers who feed us. For the veterans who served our country.
For the small business owners who took a risk.
For everyone who’s ever been knocked down, but refused to be knocked out.
I’m not running for some Americans, but for all Americans.
Our country’s challenges didn’t begin with the Great Recession and they won’t end with the recovery.
For decades, Americans have been buffeted by powerful currents. Advances in technology and the rise of global trade have created
whole new areas of economic activity and opened new markets for our exports, but they have also displaced jobs 失业and undercut wages工资低廉 for millions of Americans.
The financial industry and many multi-national corporations have created huge wealth for a few by focusing too much on short-term profit and too little on long-term value…too much on complex trading schemes and stock buybacks股票回购, too little on investments in new businesses, jobs, and fair compensation.
Our political system is so paralyzed by gridlock僵局 and dysfunction紊乱 that most Americans have lost confidence that anything can actually get done. And they’ve lost trust in the ability of both government and Big Business大企业 to change course.
Now, we can blame historic forces beyond our control for some of this我们无法掌控的历史造成了这一切, but the choices we’ve made as a nation, leaders and citizens alike, have also played a big role.
Our next President must work with Congress and every other willing partner across our entire country. And I will do just that – to turn the tide 力挽狂澜so these currents start working for us more than against us. At our best, that’s what Americans do. We’re problem solvers, not deniers. We don’t hide from change, we harness it.
But we can’t do that if we go back to the top-down自上而下 economic policies that failed us before.
Americans have come too far to see our progress ripped away.国家发展太长时间停滞不前
Now, there may be some new voices in the presidential Republican choir, but they’re all singing the same old song…
A song called “Yesterday.”
You know the one – all our troubles look as though they’re here to stay…and we need a place to hide away…They believe in yesterday. And you’re lucky I didn’t try singing that, too, I’ll tell you!
These Republicans trip over themselves搬起石头砸自己的脚 promising lower taxes for the wealthy and fewer rules for the biggest corporations without regard for how that will make income inequality even worse.
We’ve heard this tune before. And we know how it turns out结果. Ask many of these candidates about climate change, one of the defining threats of our time, and they’ll say: “I’m not a scientist.” Well, then, why don’t they start listening to those who are?
They pledge to wipe out tough rules on Wall Street, rather than rein in the banks that are still too risky, courting future failures. In a case that can only be considered mass amnesia健忘症.
They want to take away health insurance from more than 16 million Americans without any credible alternative.
My first job out of law school was for the Children’s Defense Fund.
儿童保护基金I walked door-to-door挨家挨户 to find out how many children with disabilities couldn’t go to school, and to help build the case for a law guaranteeing them access to education.
As a leader of the Legal Services Corporation法律服务公司, I defended the right of poor people to have a lawyer. And I saw lives changed because an abusive marriage ended or an illegal eviction 驱逐stopped.
In Arkansas阿肯色州, I supervised law students who represented clients in courts and prisons法庭和监狱委托, organized scholarships for single parents going to college, led efforts for better schools and health care, and personally knew the people whose lives were improved.
As Senator, I had the honor of representing brave firefighters, police officers, EMTs内科急救专家, construction workers, and volunteers who ran toward danger on 9/11 and stayed there, becoming sick themselves.
It took years of effort, but Congress finally approved the health care they needed.
There are so many faces and stories that I carry with me of people who gave their best and then needed help themselves.
Just weeks ago, I met another person like that, a single mom juggling a job and classes at community college while raising three kids.
She doesn’t expect anything to come easy. But she did ask me: What more can be done so it isn’t quite so hard for families like hers?
I want to be her champion and your champion.