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无论是身处学校还是步入社会，大家都尝试过写作吧，借助写作也可以提高我们的语言组织能力。相信许多人会觉得范文很难写？这里我整理了一些优秀的范文，希望对大家有所帮助，下面我们就来了解一下吧。
米歇尔演讲教育的重要性篇一
:(applause.)thank , ni-hao.(laughter.)it is such a pleasure and an honor to be here with all of you at this great university, so thank you so much for having , before i get started today, on behalf of myself and my husband, i just want to say a few very brief words about malaysia airlines flight my husband has said, the united states is offering as many resources as possible to assist in the please know that we are keeping all of the families and loved ones of those on this flight in our thoughts and prayers at this very difficult with that, i want to start by recognizing our new ambassador to china, ambassador ent wang;chairman zhu;vice president li;director cueller;professor oi, and the stanford center;president sexton from new york university, which is an excellent study abroad program in shanghai;and john thornton, director of the global leadership program at tsinghua you all for joining most of all, i want to thank all of the students who are here i particularly want to thank eric schaefer and zhu xuanhao for that extraordinary english and chinese was a powerful symbol of everything that i want to talk with you about , by learning each other’s languages, and by showing such curiosity and respect for each other’s cultures, r and and all of you are building bridges of understanding that will lead to so much i’m here today because i know that our future depends on connections like these among young people like you across the ’s why when my husband and i travel abroad, we don’t just visit palaces and parliaments and meet with heads of also come to schools like this one to meet with students like you, because we believe that relationships between nations aren’t just about relationships between governments or
第1页 leaders--they’re about relationships between people, particularly young we view study abroad programs not just as an educational opportunity for students, but also as a vital part of america’s foreign h the wonders of modern technology, our world is more connected than ever can cross oceans with the click of a ies can do business and compete with companies across the we can text, email, skype with people on every studying abroad isn’t just a fun way to spend a semester;it is quickly becoming the key to success in our global e getting ahead in today’s workplaces isn’t just about getting good grades or test scores in school, which are ’s also about having real experience with the world beyond your borders –-experience with languages, cultures and societies very different from your , as the chinese saying goes: ―it is better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books.‖
but let’s be clear, studying abroad is about so much more than improving your own ’s also about shaping the future of your countries and of the world we all e when it comes to the defining challenges of our time-– whether it’s climate change or economic opportunity or the spread of nuclear weapons--these are shared no one country can confront them only way forward is ’s why it is so important for young people like you to live and study in each other’s countries, because that’s how you develop that habit of do it by immersing yourself in one another’s culture, by learning each other’s stories, by getting past the stereotypes and misconceptions that too often divide ’s how you come to understand how much we all ’s how you realize that we all have a stake in each other’s success--that cures discovered here in beijing could save lives in america, that clean energy technologies from silicon valley in california could improve the environment
第2页 here in china, that the architecture of an ancient temple in xi’an could inspire the design of new buildings in dallas or detroit.谢谢。你好。很高兴也很荣幸来到这里，在这所伟大的大学和你们共聚一堂。非常感谢你们邀请我。
在我今天开始之前，代表我自己和我的丈夫，我想就马来西亚航空公司的mh370航班简短说两句。如我丈夫所说，美国正提供尽可能多的资源协助搜寻工作。请相信，在这个非常艰难的时刻，我们的心和航班上人员的家属和亲人在一起，我们为他们祈祷。
现在，我们首先来认识一下美国新任驻华大使——博卡斯大使。王校长、朱主席、李副校长、cuelluer主任、jean oi教授和斯坦福中心，纽约大学的塞克顿斯校长(该校在上海开设了一个优秀的海外留学项目)，以及清华大学全球领袖项目主任约翰·桑顿，由衷地感谢大家的到来。
最重要的是，我要感谢今天所有到场的学生们......我要特别感谢埃里克·谢弗和朱宣皓的精彩英文和中文介绍。这绝佳地诠释了我今天要和大家聊的全部话题。
你们看，通过学习彼此的语言，通过展现对彼此文化的好奇心和尊重，谢弗先生、朱女士以及你们大家正在搭建理解的桥梁，这些桥梁带来更多的丰硕成果。我今天来到你们这里是因为我知道，我们的未来取决于全球像你们这样年轻人间的这样的联系。
这也是为什么我们夫妇在国外访问时，不只参观宫殿、议会和会晤国家元首。我们也来到学校，与像你们一样的学生见面。因为我们相信，国与国之间的关系不只是政府或领导人之间的关系，它们是人民间―特别是年轻人之间的关系。因此，我们认为海外留学项目不只是为学生提供的教育机会，还是美国外交政策至关重要的组成部分。
通过现代技术奇迹，我们的世界比以往任何时候都更多地联系在一起。思想可以通过点击按钮跨越海洋。全球各地的公司可以进行业务往来和相互竟争。我们可以与各大洲的人们通过短信、电子邮件和skype进行沟通。
因此，出国留学不只是以开心的方式度过一个学期——它正迅速成为全球化经济中取得成功的关键。因为要走在当今职场的前沿，只在学校里取得好成绩是
第3页 不够的，还应拥有国境外的真实体验：体验完全不同的语言、文化和社会。正如中国的一句古话所说：―读万卷书，不如行万里路。‖
我想要说的是，出国留学绝不仅是改善你们自己的未来，它也关乎塑造你们的国家、关乎我们共有的世界的未来。因为我们这个时代的决定性挑战一一无论是气侯变化、经济机遇，还是核武器扩散一一这些都是我们共同的挑战。没有任何一个国家能够单独应对它们……唯一的出路就是共同携手。
这就是为什么年轻人到彼此国家学习和生活是如此重要。因为这是你们培养合作习惯的途径一一你们通过融入不同的文化，通过了解彼此的故事，通过跨越常常隔膜我们的成见和误解，来做到这一点。
这是你们了解到我们共享多少东西的途径。这是你们认识到我们的成功惠及彼此的途径。在北京发现的治序方法可以挽救在美国的生命，来自加州硅谷的清洁能源技术可以改善中国的环境，西安一座古老寺庙的架构可激发达拉斯或者底特律新建筑设计的灵感。
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米歇尔演讲教育的重要性篇二
first lady michelle obama:
thank you so much, elaine…we are so grateful for your family’s service and sacrifice…and we will always have your the past few years as first lady, i have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this everywhere i’ve gone, in the people i’ve met, and the stories i’ve heard, i have seen the very best of the american spirit.i have seen it in the incredible kindness and warmth that people have shown me and my family, especially our girls.i’ve seen it in teachers in a near-bankrupt school district who vowed to keep teaching without pay.i’ve seen it in people who become heroes at a moment’s notice, diving into harm’s way to save others…flying across the country to put out a fire…driving for hours to bail out a flooded i’ve seen it in our men and women in uniform and our proud military families…in wounded warriors who tell me they’re not just going to walk again, they’re going to run, and they’re going to run marathons…in the young man blinded by a bomb in afghanistan who said, simply, “…i’d give my eyes 100 times again to have the chance to do what i have done and what i can still do.”
every day, the people i meet inspire me…every day, they make me proud…every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on g as your first lady is an honor and a privilege…but back when we first came together four years ago, i still had some concerns about this journey we’d i believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country…and i was certain he would make an extraordinary president…like any mother, i was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight? how would they feel being uprooted from their school, their friends, and the only home they’d ever known?
our life before moving to washington was filled with simple joys…saturdays at soccer games, sundays at grandma’s house…and a date night for barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, i couldn’t stay awake for the truth is, i loved the life we had built for our girls…i deeply loved the man i had built that life with…and i didn’t want that to change if he became president.i loved barack just the way he see, even though back then barack was senator and a presidential candidate…to me, he was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, i could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door…he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he’d found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too when barack started telling me about his family that’s when i knew i had found a kindred spirit, someone whose values and upbringing were so much like see, barack and i were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when my brother and i were even as a kid, i knew there were plenty of days when he was in pain…i knew there were plenty of mornings when it was a struggle for him to simply get out of every morning, i watched my father wake up with a smile, grab his walker, prop himself up against the bathroom sink, and slowly shave and button his when he returned home after a long day’s work, my brother and i would stand at the top of the stairs to our little apartment, patiently waiting to greet him…watching as he reached down to lift one leg, and then the other, to slowly climb his way into our despite these challenges, my dad hardly ever missed a day of work…he and my mom were determined to give me and my brother the kind of education they could only dream when my brother and i finally made it to college, nearly all of our tuition came from student loans and my dad still had to pay a tiny portion of that tuition every semester, he was determined to pay that bill right on time, even taking out loans when he fell was so proud to be sending his kids to college…and he made sure we never missed a registration deadline because his check was see, for my dad, that’s what it meant to be a so many of us, that was the measure of his success in life being able to earn a decent living that allowed him to support his as i got to know barack, i realized that even though he’d grown up all the way across the country, he’d been brought up just like was raised by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills, and by grandparents who stepped in when she needed ’s grandmother started out as a secretary at a community bank…and she moved quickly up the ranks…but like so many women, she hit a glass for years, men no more qualified than she was men she had actually trained were promoted up the ladder ahead of her, earning more and more money while barack’s family continued to scrape day after day, she kept on waking up at dawn to catch the bus…arriving at work before anyone else…giving her best without complaint or she would often tell barack, “so long as you kids do well, bar, that’s all that really matters.” like so many american families, our families weren’t asking for didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did…in fact, they admired simply believed in that fundamental american promise that, even if you don’t start out with much, if you work hard and do what you’re supposed to do, then you should be able to build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your kids and ’s how they raised us…that’s what we learned from their learned about dignity and decency that how hard you work matters more than how much you make…that helping others means more than just getting ahead learned about honesty and integrity that the truth matters…that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules…and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and learned about gratitude and humility that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean…and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with are the values barack and i and so many of you are trying to pass on to our own ’s who we standing before you four years ago, i knew that i didn’t want any of that to change if barack became , today, after so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways i never could have imagined, i have seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are it reveals who you see, i’ve gotten to see up close and personal what being president really looks i’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer…the judgment calls where the stakes are so high, and there is no margin for as president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you when it comes to rebuilding our economy, barack is thinking about folks like my dad and like his ’s thinking about the pride that comes from a hard day’s ’s why he signed the lilly ledbetter fair pay act to help women get equal pay for equal ’s why he cut taxes for working families and small businesses and fought to get the auto industry back on its ’s how he brought our economy from the brink of collapse to creating jobs again jobs you can raise a family on, good jobs right here in the united states of it comes to the health of our families, barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically that’s not how he was raised he cared that it was the right thing to did it because he believes that here in america, our grandparents should be able to afford their medicine…our kids should be able to see a doctor when they’re sick…and no one in this country should ever go broke because of an accident or he believes that women are more than capable of making our own choices about our bodies and our health care…that’s what my husband stands it comes to giving our kids the education they deserve, barack knows that like me and like so many of you, he never could’ve attended college without financial believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our were so young, so in love, and so in ’s why barack has fought so hard to increase student aid and keep interest rates down, because he wants every young person to fulfill their promise and be able to attend college without a mountain of in the end, for barack, these issues aren’t political they’re e barack knows what it means when a family knows what it means to want something more for your kids and knows the american dream because he’s lived it…and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we’re from, or what we look like, or who we he believes that when you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity…you do not slam it shut behind you…you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you when people ask me whether being in the white house has changed my husband, i can honestly say that when it comes to his character, and his convictions, and his heart, barack obama is still the same man i fell in love with all those years ’s the same man who started his career by turning down high paying jobs and instead working in struggling neighborhoods where a steel plant had shut down, fighting to rebuild those communities and get folks back to work…because for barack, success isn’t about how much money you make, it’s about the difference you make in people’s ’s the same man who, when our girls were first born, would anxiously check their cribs every few minutes to ensure they were still breathing, proudly showing them off to everyone we ’s the man who sits down with me and our girls for dinner nearly every night, patiently answering their questions about issues in the news, and strategizing about middle school ’s the man i see in those quiet moments late at night, hunched over his desk, poring over the letters people have sent letter from the father struggling to pay his bills…from the woman dying of cancer whose insurance company won’t cover her care…from the young person with so much promise but so few opportunities.i see the concern in his eyes…and i hear the determination in his voice as he tells me, “you won’t believe what these folks are going through, michelle…it’s not ’ve got to keep working to fix ’ve got so much more to do.”
i see how those stories our collection of struggles and hopes and dreams i see how that’s what drives barack obama every single i didn’t think it was possible, but today, i love my husband even more than i did four years ago…even more than i did 23 years ago, when we first met.i love that he’s never forgotten how he started.i love that we can trust barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard especially when it’s hard.i love that for barack, there is no such thing as “us” and “them” he doesn’t care whether you’re a democrat, a republican, or none of the above…he knows that we all love our country…and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas…he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he i love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward…with patience and wisdom, and courage and he reminds me that we are playing a long game here…and that change is hard, and change is slow, and it never happens all at eventually we get there, we always get there because of folks like my dad…folks like barack’s grandmother…men and women who said to themselves, “i may not have a chance to fulfill my dreams, but maybe my children will…maybe my grandchildren will.”
so many of us stand here tonight because of their sacrifice, and longing, and steadfast love…because time and again, they swallowed their fears and doubts and did what was today, when the challenges we face start to seem overwhelming or even impossible let us never forget that doing the impossible is the history of this nation…it’s who we are as americans…it’s how this country was if our parents and grandparents could toil and struggle for us…if they could raise beams of steel to the sky, send a man to the moon, and connect the world with the touch of a button…then surely we can keep on sacrificing and building for our own kids and if so many brave men and women could wear our country’s uniform and sacrifice their lives for our most fundamental rights…then surely we can do our part as citizens of this great democracy to exercise those rights…surely, we can get to the polls and make our voices heard on election farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire…if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores…if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote…if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time…if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream…and if proud americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love…then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great american e in the end, more than anything else, that is the story of this country the story of unwavering hope grounded in unyielding is what has made my story, and barack’s story, and so many other american stories i say all of this tonight not just as first lady…and not just as a see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” my daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my today, i have none of those worries from four years ago about whether barack and i were doing what’s best for our e today, i know from experience that if i truly want to leave a better world for my daughters, and all our sons and daughters…if we want to give all our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities worthy of their promise…if we want to give them that sense of limitless possibility that belief that here in america, there is always something better out there if you’re willing to work for it…then we must work like never before…and we must once again come together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country forward…my husband, our president, president barack you, god bless you, and god bless america.
米歇尔演讲教育的重要性篇三
transcript: michelle obama's convention speech
september 4,2012
thank you so much, elaine...we are so grateful for your family's service and sacrifice...and we will always have your the past few years as first lady, i have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this everywhere i've gone, in the people i've met, and the stories i've heard, i have seen the very best of the american spirit.i have seen it in the incredible kindness and warmth that people have shown me and my family, especially our girls.i've seen it in teachers in a near-bankrupt school district who vowed to keep teaching without pay.i've seen it in people who become heroes at a moment's notice, diving into harm's way to save others...flying across the country to put out a fire...driving for hours to bail out a flooded i've seen it in our men and women in uniform and our proud military families...in wounded warriors who tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons...in the young man blinded by a bomb in afghanistan who said, simply, “...i'd give my eyes 100 times again to have the chance to do what i have done and what i can still do.”
every day, the people i meet inspire me...every day, they make me proud...every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on g as your first lady is an honor and a privilege...but back when we first came together four years ago, i still had some concerns about this journey we'd i believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country...and i was certain he would make an extraordinary president...like any mother, i was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight? pbs newshour/youtube
first lady michelle obama addresses the dnc after being introduced by military mom elaine brye, from pbs would they feel being uprooted from their school, their friends, and the only home they'd ever known?
our life before moving to washington was filled with simple joys...saturdays at soccer games, sundays at grandma's house...and a date night for barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, i couldn't stay awake for the truth is, i loved the life we had built for our girls...i deeply loved the man i had built that life with...and i didn't want that to change if he became president.i loved barack just the way he see, even though back then barack was a senator and a presidential candidate...to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, i could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door...he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too when barack started telling me about his family – that's when i knew i had found a kindred spirit, someone whose values and upbringing were so much like see, barack and i were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when my brother and i were even as a kid, i knew there were plenty of days when he was in pain...i knew there were plenty of mornings when it was a struggle for him to simply get out of every morning, i watched my father wake up with a smile, grab his walker, prop himself up against the bathroom sink, and slowly shave and button his when he returned home after a long day's work, my brother and i would stand at the top of the stairs to our little apartment, patiently waiting to greet him...watching as he reached down to lift one leg, and then the other, to slowly climb his way into our despite these challenges, my dad hardly ever missed a day of work...he and my mom were determined to give me and my brother the kind of education they could only dream when my brother and i finally made it to college, nearly all of our tuition came from student loans and my dad still had to pay a tiny portion of that tuition every semester, he was determined to pay that bill right on time, even taking out loans when he fell was so proud to be sending his kids to college...and he made sure we never missed a registration deadline because his check was see, for my dad, that's what it meant to be a so many of us, that was the measure of his success in life – being able to earn a decent living that allowed him to support his as i got to know barack, i realized that even though he'd grown up all the way across the country, he'd been brought up just like was raised by a single mother who struggled to pay the bills, and by grandparents who stepped in when she needed 's grandmother started out as a secretary at a community bank...and she moved quickly up the ranks...but like so many women, she hit a glass for years, men no more qualified than she was – men she had actually trained – were promoted up the ladder ahead of her, earning more and more money while barack's family continued to scrape day after day, she kept on waking up at dawn to catch the bus...arriving at work before anyone else...giving her best without complaint or she would often tell barack, “so long as you kids do well, bar, that's all that really matters.”
like so many american families, our families weren't asking for didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did...in fact, they admired simply believed in that fundamental american promise that, even if you don't start out with much, if you work hard and do what you're supposed to do, then you should be able to build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your kids and 's how they raised us...that's what we learned from their learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make...that helping others means more than just getting ahead learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters...that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules...and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean...and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with are the values barack and i – and so many of you – are trying to pass on to our own 's who we standing before you four years ago, i knew that i didn't want any of that to change if barack became , today, after so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways i never could have imagined, i have seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are – it reveals who you see, i've gotten to see up close and personal what being president really looks i've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer...the judgment calls where the stakes are so high, and there is no margin for as president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you when it comes to rebuilding our economy, barack is thinking about folks like my dad and like his 's thinking about the pride that comes from a hard day's 's why he signed the lilly ledbetter fair pay act to help women get equal pay for equal 's why he cut taxes for working families and small businesses and fought to get the auto industry back on its 's how he brought our economy from the brink of collapse to creating jobs again – jobs you can raise a family on, good jobs right here in the united states of it comes to the health of our families, barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that's not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to did it because he believes that here in america, our grandparents should be able to afford their medicine...our kids should be able to see a doctor when they're sick...and no one in this country should ever go broke because of an accident or he believes that women are more than capable of making our own choices about our bodies and our health care...that's what my husband stands it comes to giving our kids the education they deserve, barack knows that like me and like so many of you, he never could've attended college without financial believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our were so young, so in love, and so in 's why barack has fought so hard to increase student aid and keep interest rates down, because he wants every young person to fulfill their promise and be able to attend college without a mountain of in the end, for barack, these issues aren't political – they're e barack knows what it means when a family knows what it means to want something more for your kids and knows the american dream because he's lived it...and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we're from, or what we look like, or who we he believes that when you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you when people ask me whether being in the white house has changed my husband, i can honestly say that when it comes to his character, and his convictions, and his heart, barack obama is still the same man i fell in love with all those years 's the same man who started his career by turning down high paying jobs and instead working in struggling neighborhoods where a steel plant had shut down, fighting to rebuild those communities and get folks back to work...because for barack, success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's 's the same man who, when our girls were first born, would anxiously check their cribs every few minutes to ensure they were still breathing, proudly showing them off to everyone we 's the man who sits down with me and our girls for dinner nearly every night, patiently answering their questions about issues in the news, and strategizing about middle school 's the man i see in those quiet moments late at night, hunched over his desk, poring over the letters people have sent letter from the father struggling to pay his bills...from the woman dying of cancer whose insurance company won't cover her care...from the young person with so much promise but so few opportunities.i see the concern in his eyes...and i hear the determination in his voice as he tells me, “you won't believe what these folks are going through, michelle...it's not 've got to keep working to fix 've got so much more to do.”
i see how those stories – our collection of struggles and hopes and dreams – i see how that's what drives barack obama every single i didn't think it was possible, but today, i love my husband even more than i did four years ago...even more than i did 23 years ago, when we first met.i love that he's never forgotten how he started.i love that we can trust barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard – especially when it's hard.i love that for barack, there is no such thing as “us” and “them” – he doesn't care whether you're a democrat, a republican, or none of the above...he knows that we all love our country...and he's always ready to listen to good ideas...he's always looking for the very best in everyone he i love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it – when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost – barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward...with patience and wisdom, and courage and he reminds me that we are playing a long game here...and that change is hard, and change is slow, and it never happens all at eventually we get there, we always get there because of folks like my dad...folks like barack's grandmother...men and women who said to themselves, “i may not have a chance to fulfill my dreams, but maybe my children will...maybe my grandchildren will.”
so many of us stand here tonight because of their sacrifice, and longing, and steadfast love...because time and again, they swallowed their fears and doubts and did what was today, when the challenges we face start to seem overwhelming – or even impossible – let us never forget that doing the impossible is the history of this nation...it's who we are as americans...it's how this country was if our parents and grandparents could toil and struggle for us...if they could raise beams of steel to the sky, send a man to the moon, and connect the world with the touch of a button...then surely we can keep on sacrificing and building for our own kids and if so many brave men and women could wear our country's uniform and sacrifice their lives for our most fundamental rights...then surely we can do our part as citizens of this great democracy to exercise those rights...surely, we can get to the polls and make our voices heard on election farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire...if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores...if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote...if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time...if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream...and if proud americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love...then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great american e in the end, more than anything else, that is the story of this country – the story of unwavering hope grounded in unyielding is what has made my story, and barack's story, and so many other american stories i say all of this tonight not just as first lady...and not just as a see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” my daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my today, i have none of those worries from four years ago about whether barack and i were doing what's best for our e today, i know from experience that if i truly want to leave a better world for my daughters, and all our sons and daughters...if we want to give all our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities worthy of their promise...if we want to give them that sense of limitless possibility – that belief that here in america, there is always something better out there if you're willing to work for it...then we must work like never before...and we must once again come together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country forward...my husband, our president, president barack you, god bless you, and god bless america.
