Ohe great Empire State and the whole family of New York, let me thank yreat privilege of beio address this . Please allow me to skip the stories ahe temptation to deal i vague rhetoric. Let me ihis valuable opportunity to deal immediately with the questions that should determiion and that we all ko the Ameri people.
Ten days ago, President Reaga although some people in this try seemed to be doing well nowadays, others y, eve themselves, their families, aures. The President said that he didhat fear. He said, \"Why, this try is a shining a hill.\" A is right. In many ways we are a shining a hill.
But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this city\'s splendlory. A shining city is perhaps all the Presidehe portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyoo be doihere\'s ahere\'s ao the shihe part where some people \'t pay their mes, and most you afford os \'t afford the edu they need, and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their evaporate.
In this part of the city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, more and more people who d it. Evehere are elderly people who tremble is of the houses there. And there are people who sleep ireets, ier, where the glitter doesn\'t shhettos where thousands of you a job or aioheir lives away t dealers every day. There is despair, Mr. Presidehat you dohe places that you don\'t visit in y city.
Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you visited some more places; maybe if you alachia where some people still live in sheds; maybe if you went to Laa where thousands of ueel hy we subsidized fn steel. Maybe -- Maybe, Mr. President, if you stopped ier in d spoke to the homeless there; maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who had beehe help she o feed her because you said you he moax break for a millionaire or for a missile we \'t afford to use.
Maybe -- Maybe, Mr. President. But I\'m afraid he truth is, ladies a this is hoar would be. Presideold us frinning that he believed in a kind of social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest. \"Gover d,\" we were told, so it should settle f care a ebition and charity will do the rest. Make the rich rid what falls from the table will be enough for the middle d th desperately to work their way into the middle class.
You know, the Republis called it \"tri\" wheried it. \"supply side.\" But it\'s the same shining city for those relative few who are luough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded, for the people who are locked out, all they do is stare from a dista city\'s glimmering towers.
It\'s an old story. It\'s as old as our history. The differewees and Republis has always been measured in d ce. The Republis -- The Republis believe that the wagon train will he frontier uhe old, some of the youhe weak are left behind by the side of the trail. \"The strong\" -- \"The stroell us, \"will ihe land.\"
We Democrats believe ihing else. We democrats believe that we make it all the hole family intad we have more than once. Ever sinklied himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees -- wagon trairaiiers of edu, housihe whole family aboard, tly reag out to extehat family; liftio the wagon on the way; blad Hispanid people of every ethnic group, and native Ameris -- all th to build their families and all share of Ameriearly 50 years we carried them all to new levels of fort, ay, and dignity, even affluend remember this, some of us in this room today are here ohis nation had that kind of d it w tet that.
So, here we are at this ind ourselves where we and to claim the future for ourselves and for our . Treat Democratic Party, which has saved this nation from depression, from fas, from , is called upon to do it again -- this time to save the nation from and division, from the threat of eventual fiscal disaster, and most of all from the fear of a nuclear holocaust.
That\'s not going to be easy. Mo Udall is exactly right -- it won\'t be easy. Ao succeed, we must answer our oppo\'s polished and appealih a m reasonableness and rationality.
We must win this erits. We must get the Ameri public to look past the glitter, beyond the sho to the reality, the hard substahings. And we\'ll do it not so much with speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good and sound; not so much with speeches that will briheir feet as with speeches that will briheir se make -- We must make the Ameri people hear our \"Tale of Two Cities.\" We must ce them that we dole for two cities, that we have oy, indivisible, shining for all of its people.
Noill have hat if what es out of this is a babel voices. If that\'s what\'s heard throughout the , dissident sounds from all sides, we will have ell e. To succeed we will have to surrender some small parts of our individual io build a platform that we all stand on, at onfortably -- proudly singing out. We need -- latform we all agree to so that we g out the truth for the nation to hear, in chorus, its logic so d anding that no sli Avenue erouy, no martial music will be able to muffle the souh.
As must us must u the eion ite, because surely the Republi\'t bring this try together. Their policies divide the nation into the lud the left-out, iy and the rabble. The Republis are willi division as victory. They would ation in half, iemporarily better off and those worse off thahey would call that division recovery.
Now, we should not -- we should not be embarrassed or dismayed rihe proifying is diffi wreng at times. Remember that, uher Party, we embrad women of every color, every creed, every orientation, every eic our family are gathered everyohe abject poor of Essex o the enlightehe gold coasts at both eion. Awee of our cy -- the middle class, the peh to be worry-free, but o be ohe middle class -- those people wh because they have to, not bee psychiatrist told them it was a t way to fill the iween birth ay. White d blue c professionals. Men and women in small busie for the d tracts that they o prove their worth.
We speak for the minorities who have he mainstream. We speak for ethnit to add their ag mosaic that is America. We speak -- We speak for women whnant that this o etto its goveral ents the simple rule \"thou shalt not sin agaiy,\" a rule so simple --
I was going to say, and I perhaps dare not but I will. It\'s a ent so simple it be spelled iers: E.R.A.
我正要说，也许我不敢，但我会的。这是一条非常简单的命令，可以用三个字母拼写：E.R.a。
We speak -- We speak f people demaion and a future. We speak for senior s. We speak for senior s who are terrorized by the idea that their oheir Social Security, is beiened. We speak for milli people fighting to preserve our e from greed and from stupidity. And we speak for reasonable people whhting to preserve our very existenasige refuses to make iempts to discuss the possibility of nuclear holocaust with our ehey refuse. They refuse, because they believe ile missiles so high that they will pierce the d the sight of them will frighteo submission.
Now we\'re proud of this diversity as Democrats. We\'re grateful for it. We doo mahe ublis will h in Dallas, by propping up maes oion floor. But e\'re proud of this diversity, rice for it. The differe we represent have different points of view. Ahey pete ae, and eve\'s rimaries were all about. But now the primaries are over and it is time, when we pididates and our platform here, to lod move into this together.
If you need aion to put some small part of your own differee this sus, then all you o do is to refle ubli policy of divide and cajole has dohis land sinow the President has asked the Ameri people to judge him o he\'s fulfilled the promises he made fo. I believe, as Democrats, we ought to accept that ge. And just for a mome us sider what he has said and what he\'s done.
Inflation -- Inflation is down since 1980, but not because of the supply-side miraised to us by the President. Inflatiohe old-fashioned way: with a re, the worst sinoe -- We could have brought inflation do did he do it? 55,000 bawo years of massive u; 200,000 farmers and ranchers forced off the land; more homeless -- more homeless than at ahe Great Depression in 1932; mry, in this world of enormous afflueed States of America, mry; more poor, most of them women. And -- And he paid , a nearly 200 billion dollar deficit threatening our future.
make the Ameri people uhis deficit because they don\'t. The Preside is a dired dramatic repudiation of his promise in 1980 to bala by 1983. He is it? The deficit is the largest iory of the u -- Preside budget had a deficit less thahird of this deficit. It is a deficit that, ag to the President\'s own fiscal adviser, may grow to as much 300 billion dollars a year for \"as far as the eye see.\" And, ladies a is a debt se -- that is almost one-half of the mo from the persoax each year goes just to pay the i is a me on our \'s future that be paid only in pain and that g this nation to its knees.
Now don\'t take my word for it -- I\'m a Democrat. Ask the Republivestment bankers on Wall Street what they think the ces of this rec perma are. You see, if they\'re not too embarrassed to tell you the truth, they\'ll say that they\'re appalled ahe Preside. Ask them what they think of our ey, now that it\'s beehe distorted value of the dollar back to its ial . ing agricultural produd imp manufaes. Ask those Republivestmehey expect the rate of io be a year from now. Ahey dare tell you the truth -- you\'ll learhey predict for the inflation rate a year from now, because of the deficit.
Now, how important is this questio. Think about it practically: What ce would the Republididate have had in 1980 if he had told the Ameri people that he io pay for his so-ic recovery temployment, more homeless, mry, a gover known to humankiold the voters in 1980 that truth, would Ameri voters have sighe loae for him oion Day? Of ot! That was aion won ue ith smoke and mirrors and illusions. And that\'s the kind of recovery we have now as well.
But what abn policy? They said that they would make us and the whole world safer. They say they have. By g the largest defeory, ohey now admit is excessive -- by esg to a frenzy the nuclear arms radiary rhet to discuss peaies; by the loss of 279 young Ameri Lebanon in pursuit of a plan and a polio one d or describe.
We give moin Amerients that murder nuns, and the. We have beehan zealous in support of our only real friend -- it seems to me, in the Middle East -- the ohere, our flesh and blood ally, the state of Israel. Our -- Our policy -- n policy drifts with iohan an hysterient to an arms race that leads nowhere -- if we\'re lud if we\'re not, it could lead us into bankruptcy or war.
Of ust have a strong defense! Of ocrats are f defense. Of ocrats believe that there are times that we must stand and fight. Ahousands of us have paid for freedom with our lives. But always -- when this try has been at its best -- our purposes were ow they\'re not. Now our allies are as fused as our enemies. Now we have ment to our friends or to our ideals -- not thts, not to the refuseniks, not to Sakharov, not to Bishop Tutu ahers struggling for freedom in South Africa.
We -- We have i feehan we afford. ounded our d made bold speeches. But we lost 279 young Ameri Lebanon and we live behind sand bags in Washington. How e say that we are safer, stroter?
That -- That is the Republi record. That its disastrous quality is not more fully uood by the Ameri people I ly attribute to the President\'s amiability and the failure by some to separate the salesma.
And, no it\'s up to us. Now it\'s up to you ao make the eriihat if they are not happy with all that the President has done so far, they should sider hoill be if he is left to his radical proclivities for another four years urained.
Now, if -- if July -- if July brings ba Gorsuch Burford -- eber? here would another four years take us? Where would four years more take us? How much larger will the defiuch deeper the programs f middle d the poor to limit that deficit? How high will the ies be? How much more a killing our forests and fouling our lakes?
And, ladies alemehink of this -- the nation must think of this: What kind of Supreme Court will we have?
女士们，先生们，请大家想想这个国家必须想想：我们会有什么样的最高法院？
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We -- We must ask ourselves what kind of d try will be fashiohe man who believes in havi mandate peion and morality; the mahat trees pollute the ehe mahat -- that the laws against disation agaioo far; a maens Social Sed Medid help for the disabled. Hoe pile the missiles? How much deeper will the gulf be between us and our enemies? And, ladies alemen, will four years more make mea of the Ameri people? This eleeasure the record of the past four years. But more than that, it will aion of what kind of people we want to be.
We believe in eng the tale we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a g des of the process of evolutio of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
We -- over -- over should be able to rise to the level where it fill the gaps that are left by ce or by a wisdom we don\'t fully uand. We would rather have laws writteron of this great city, the mahe \"world\'s most si,\" St. Francis of Assisi, than laws written by Darwin.
We believe -- We believe as Democrats, that a society as blessed as ours, the most affluent demo the world\'s history, o d trillions os of destru, ought to be able to help the middle its struggle, ought to be able to find work for all who at the table, shelter for the homeless, care for the elderly and infirm, ahe destitute. And we proclaim as loudly as we the utter insanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze, if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better thah.
We believe in firm -- We believe in firm but fair law and order.
我们相信坚定——我们相信坚定但公平的法律和秩序。
We believe proudly in the u.
我们自豪地相信工会运动。
We believe in a -- We believe -- We believe in privacy for people, openness by gover.
我们相信，我们相信，人们的隐私，政府的公开。
We believe in civil rights, and we believe in human rights.
我们相信公民权利，我们相信人权。
We believe in a single -- We believe in a single fual idea that describes better thabooks a I could er gover should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharis ahe good of all, feeliher\'s pain, shariher\'s blessings -- reasonably, holy, fairly, without respect to race, raphy, or political affiliation.
We believe we must be the family of Ameriizing that at the heart of the matter we are bouher, that the problems of a retired school tea Duluth are our problems; that the future of the child -- that the future of the Buffalo is our future; that the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive aly is le; that the hunger of a woman in Little Rer; that the failure ao provide what reasoo avoid pain, is our failure.
Now for 50 years -- for 50 years we Democrats created a better future for traditioiciples as a fixed beag us dired purpose, but tly innovating, adaptiies: Roosevelt\'s alphabet programs; Truman\'s NATO and the GI Bill hts; Keelligent tax ihe Alliance fress; Johnson\'s civil rights; Carter\'s human rights and the nearly mirap David Peace Accord.
Democrats did it -- Democrats did it as do it again. We build a future that deals with our deficit. Remember this, that 5ress under our pri us what the last fnation have. And we deal with the defitelligently, by shared sacrifice, arts of the nation\'s family tributing, building partnerships with the private sect a sou depriving ourselves of what we o feed our and care for our people. We have a future that provides for all the you, by marrying on sense and passion.
e , because we did it for nearly 50 years before 1980. And we do it agai fet -- if we det that this eion has profited by these progressive prihey helped lift up geo the middle d higher; that they gave us a ce to to college, to raise a family, to owo be se e ahts that our ows would not have dared dream of.
That struggle to live with dignity is the real story of the shining d it\'s a story, ladies a I didn\'t read in a book, or learn in a . I saw it a, like many of you. I watched a small man with thick calluses on both his hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him oerally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here ued, aloo speak the laaught me all I o know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. I lear our kind of demoy father. And I lear atioher from him and from my mother. They asked only for a ce to work ahe world better for their , ahey asked to be prote those momehey would o protect themselves. This nation and this natio did that for them.
And that they were able to build a family and live in dignity aheir go from behile grocery store in South Jamai the other side of the tracks where he was born, to occupy the highest seat, iate, iion, in the only , is an ineffably beautiful tribute to the democratic process.
And -- And ladies alemen, on January 20, 1985, it en again -- only on a much, muder scale. We will have a of the Ues, a Demo not to the blood of kings but to the blood of pioneers and immigrants. And we will have America\'s first resident, the igrants, and she -- she -- she will open with one magroke, a whole ier for the Ues.
Now, it en. It e happen; if you a happen. And I ask you now, ladies ahers ahe good of all of us, for the love of this great nation, for the family of America, for the love of God: Please, make this natioures are built.