以永遠的微笑為題的優秀作文

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　　Good morning. Thank you. Thank you very, very much. Thanks so much. Thankyou, Penny,for an extraordinary introduction. And based on that introduction,I accept the nomination. (Laughter.) I’m totally kidding. I’m out of that now;I’m out of that now.

以永遠的微笑為題的優秀作文精選

　　I’ll tell you, I – about a coupleof months – I mean, before I was offered the job of beingSecretary of State, Iwas still, obviously, serving in the United States Senate. And I waswalkingthrough an airport one day, and this fellow – you notice when people have thatsense ofrecognition. And he points at me, and he says, “Hey, you, hey you,anybody tell you you looklike that Kerry guy who we sent down to Washington?”(Laughter.) And I say, “Oh, they tell methat all the time.” He says, “Kind ofmakes you mad, don’t it?” (Laughter.) So I’m very happy tobe out of theelectoral process, folks. (Laughter.) It’s just fine by me.

　　I’m really happy to be here andI’m very, very honored to be introduced by Penny, who is agood friend. She wasvery involved with me in 2004 when I ran for President. I’m just sothrilledshe is now our Commerce Secretary, and I’m very grateful for the effort and theenergythat’s gone into making this first ever summit such a success. No onewho knows Penny is goingto be surprised by that, because everything that Pennyhas done – in business, inphilanthropy, in public service – has always been asuccess. And those of you who know herknow that she is really a dynamic CEO inher own right, and you can feel the energy and theleadership that she isalready bringing to the Commerce Department. She’s a fabulous partnerand I’mthrilled by it; very, very happy to have her there.

　　And I was with her, and she said– I heard her in the introduction talk about being in KualaLumpur together,and we had a chance to go out and break bread together. And we werechatting,and she was reminding me of the story of her dad who started the familybusiness withone motel out in Los Angeles. And she kind of lived in the motel,and then she went up to SanFrancisco, and boom, it grew to six. And noweverybody knows what Hyatt Hotels Incorporationare – it’s a great Americanstory. It’s a great story of entrepreneurship, and we’re so proud ofPenny andgrateful that she’s stepping back from the private sector to share with usthatexpertise and give us the energy and dynamics we need.

　　Her leadership of SelectUSA isjust one of the reasons that this effort has the potential togrow our country,and to grow all of yours, for those of you who are here visiting from somanyother countries. And we welcome you here. The single biggest reason SelectUSAis going tomake a difference is, frankly, all of you, a group of very capablebusiness leaders, people who arehungry, who understand the dynamics of themarketplace, who are ambitious in your businessgoals, and come here with avision from nearly 60 countries around the world and from all acrossthe UnitedStates.

　　I said in my confirmationhearing, when I was selected to become Secretary of State – I saidto theSenators, my former colleagues, that in many ways, foreign policy today iseconomicpolicy. And leaders in government need to understand that. There is asynergy and animportance to this relationship that cannot be denied.

　　I think many of you are herebecause you understand this new marketplace that we’re alloperating in –voracious, huge appetite. And very, very fast-moving. And we wanted you tocomehere and SelectUSA is the umbrella that is hosting this event because webelieve deeply –we’re convinced, based on our dealings in the world, theexposure in the world, withoutarrogance, without chauvinism – that there is nobetter place in the world to invest than herein America. And there’s no bettertime to do it, in many ways, than right now, because some ofthe growth anddevelopment of the last few years has sort of equalized out in some places sothatmanufacturing – as the Secretary said, the number of manufacturing jobshere now – we’regrowing in manufacturing again because it’s competitive againfor a lot of different reasons.

　　So make no mistake: As we lookahead to the major trends that are going to define thisnew age, the factorsthat will determine which countries thrive, as well as which businessesthrivein this competitive marketplace, I think it’s crystal clear that the UnitedStates is goingto continue, because it’s the nature and base of our economy,not because we’re somehowsuperior and somehow better. We just – the nature ofhow we have grown and where we’vecome from, from the Industrial Revolution allthe way through the 1990s and the techexplosion, and into where we are now. Wewill continue to lead the world in both innovationand education because of thenature of our universities, the structure, the number, and theopenness withwhich they operate.

　　And I believe also people willhave access here because we will continue to work hard tomake sure that wehave the most qualified workers and one of the largest consumer markets intheworld. Again, I say, I don’t say any of this with one touch of arrogance. I sayit because thatgood news for America is also, in fact, good news for theworld. It is good news for you and yourbusinesses. And you know the importanceof the American economy in terms of driving China’seconomy and other economiesin the world, and their importance now to driving other economiesin theirregions and elsewhere. And it’s a principal reason why I believe you ought toinvest here.It’s why President Obama is making attracting job-creatinginvestment a top priority at a levelunlike any before.

　　So you are sitting here thismorning, we believe, in the heart of the most open economy inthe world. TheUnited States already is the world’s largest recipient of direct foreigninvestment.In addition, the investment Penny mentioned about manufacturing –we have about 5.6 milliontotal good-paying American jobs, contributing closeto a trillion dollars to our economy thatcomes from foreign direct investment.And that’s why manufacturing, pharmaceutical, IT,energy companies from many ofyour countries are now setting their shop – setting up shophere in the UnitedStates every day.

　　Our trade agreements are built onthe premise of shared prosperity. We have deals thatgo both ways, and thosecreate good-paying jobs all over the world. They offer Americanfirmsunprecedented global access, which we think is critical. But it also opens ourdoors andour markets to foreign firms. Now, I want you to – and I think,incidentally, I’ll just tell you, Ithink this is the direction of the world.This is the way the world is going to move. And thosewho understand it andthose who move most rapidly to embrace the higher standards and theopennessare those who are going to be able to take advantage of the new marketplace andbeleaders in the global economy. Nobody can put this genie back in the bottle.I used to havearguments up in the Senate with my colleagues. We had the greatNAFTA debate and all thoseother struggles, free trade versus the sort of oldorder, if you will. And the fact is that everysingle time we’ve moved forwardin that openness and every single time we’ve embraced one ofthose agreements,we’ve done better. We’ve transitioned – not always without some disruption,notalways without some dislocation, obviously, but with a massive infusion of newenergy andnew creativity and new innovation and new jobs that come with thechange.

　　So I want you to measure whatwe’ve done with our neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Weopened up North Americanthrough NAFTA, the greatest single step towards shared prosperityin thishemisphere. And we know we don’t have to share a border in order to sharebusiness,which is why we have free trade agreements with 20 countries fromChile to Morocco to SouthKorea – markets that together reach 700 millionpeople and seven trillion in GDP.

　　But none of that alone would actuallymake the United States the best place to invest if wedidn’t also focus on ourworkers and make sure that we’re doing as much as we can to try tohave thebest workers, the most skilled and the most productive that we can, in theworld,hopefully. And that’s true in part because we work hard to make surethat we train them in thebest schools and universities, and a lot of effortthat goes into that. And we reach out to bringthe brightest minds and the besttalent from all over the world. Many of you know, and many ofyou were, maybe,educated here in the United States. I can’t tell you how many heads ofstate,finance ministers, foreign ministers, prime ministers throughout government,heads ofstate and chief executives, who I meet as I travel the world and havefor the last 29 years as asenator, who came to the United States to go toschool, or who participated in educationalexchanges in the Fulbright Program,for instance, or in other programs.

　　I meet them everywhere. TheForeign Minister of Saudi Arabia, who has been ForeignMinister for 30 plusyears or more, proudly reminds me of his education at Princeton, forinstance.And the Foreign Minister of Vietnam today showed me, when I saw him in New Yorkatthe United Nations General Assembly, handed me a photograph and said, “Thiswas you and me25, 30 years ago when I met you at Fletcher School of Law andDiplomacy when you were asenator.” It’s incredible. That’s the new world we’reliving in. Maybe a lot of you have a cousinor a friend who came to our shoresto start their own business. In fact, about half of our smallbusinesses arestarted by immigrants who know instinctively that the American Dream isnotrestricted to those born in America.

　　If you go to Miami, Chicago, SanFrancisco, or any major city in America, you will find acommunity that speaksyour language, understands your culture, welcomes diversity, and canserve asan anchor for your next venture. And it’s not just the big cities. You’ve heardfromPresident Obama, Secretary Pritzker, Secretary Lew, and so many others atthis summit about alot of the success stories – Indian manufacturers expandingplants in Upstate New York,Singaporean companies extending their supply chainsto the heart of Texas, Germanmultinationals creating jobs in small-townKentucky, Canadian pharmaceutical subsidiariesinvesting in suburban Ohio, andSouth African energy firms investing in Southwest Louisiana.That’s not in thefuture. That’s now. That’s the present.

　　So there’s no question that theUnited States is lucky to be able to offer the world’s bestinvestment climatetoday. And I say lucky; we’re blessed to have it, but we do try to work atit.And President Obama has made it clear we’re going to work at it even harder. Noinvestmentis about the past. It’s about the future. So we’re going to refuseto sit still. The world, as we allknow, is getting more competitive, but soare we. Capital chases confidence, and I’mconfident that we’re going tocontinue to get stronger and be more effective.

　　SelectUSA is a big reason why. Asyou’ve heard yesterday and perhaps during the week,those of you here, we’reworking hard now to make it even easier for you to be able invest here,andmaking that effort is a much bigger part of our mission, especially now at theStateDepartment. At home, we are coordinating at every level, from mayors ofsmall towns all theway up to President Obama.

　　The State Department familyaround the world has been instructed, working with theForeign CommercialService of the Commerce Department, that we must organize dedicatedinvestmentteams, led by our capable ambassadors, drawing on the talent of ourdedicatedembassy staff, and we’re going to actively encourage job-creating investmentsin theUnited States as a core priority.

　　Our diplomats already play a hugerole in helping your businesses succeed in the UnitedStates. In Estonia, ourambassador led an intensive outreach effort to encourage tech start-upsto cometo the United States. In Canada, embassy officers worked with a localautomotive firm inorder to invest tens of millions of dollars in Michigan,where the American auto industry is nowmaking a remarkable comeback. All overthe world, working hard to help businesses meet theirgoals, the StateDepartment is engaged in – with a new level of intensity and focus becauseofthe nature of the global marketplace.

　　And we believe we can do more andwe’re going to do more, starting in 32 markets thatrepresent more than 90percent of all the foreign direct investment that comes here. So whatdoes thatmean for business leaders like you? It means that you’ll now have a singlepoint ofcontact to connect your company with our markets and investors, andthe economicdevelopment organizations who are here to help you and your businessesgrow.

　　Just the other week I met with agroup of CEOs in Indonesia, and they – some of themexpressed frustration to mewith some of the foreign governments who preach the principleof open markets,but then they actually practice protectionism. These CEOs know, as you do,thatfreer markets create more opportunity, more growth, more dynamism, andmoreinnovation. The freedom to fail is an important component of succeeding.

　　So in order to open more doorsand in order to continue the best investment climate in theworld, we’re goingcontinue to add to our strong portfolio of trade agreements that reaffirmourcommitment to open and free markets, and to a level playing field. Now,globalization meansthat people everywhere now have higher expectations. Inmany ways, the revolutionary eventsthat are taking place in the Middle Eastand in some other parts of the world are a reflection ofthat. The Tunisianrevolution that peacefully removed a dictator of some 30 years wasnotideological. It was not inspired by religious extremism. It was a fruit vendorwho wanted topractice his trade without corruption and without interference.And that fruit vendor sparkedthat revolution because people wanted to touchthe aspirations that they now know the rest ofthe world is living or sharingin so many places.

　　Same thing in Tahrir Square.Tahrir Square was not the Muslim Brotherhood. Tahrir Squarehad nothing to dowith that kind of politics or with any kind of religion or any kind ofideology. Itwas young people texting each other and using their smartphonesand the virtues of being ableto text and tweet and connect with people thatbrought about another revolution. And thesame thing is what started Syria,though Syria was coopted faster by other interests and otherforces.

　　No leader anywhere in the worldcan afford to look away from huge populations of youngpeople coming at us inunprecedented numbers, all of them in touch with their aspirations. It’sadifferent world. It’s going to change politics as well as business. So whatwe’re going to try toaccomplish with two enormous and high – veryhigh-standard trade negotiations that wereunderway right now is to raise thestandards and raise the possibilities for people.

　　The Trans-Pacific Partnership,which will integrate a region, represents 40 percent of globaltrade. And if wecan lock that in, it will raise the standards around the world. When you linkthatto the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which will bringEurope, which is another40 percent of the world’s market, you will have – infact, it’s the largest market in the world thatwill join with the largestindividual economy in the world, and that will create anenormoustransformation in the standards that people are practicing by. Those effortswilldramatically expand our market reach and they will strengthen rules-basedtrading so that weengage in a race to the top, not a race to the bottom. Andthat helps everyone compete whileensuring strong protections for workers, forconsumers, and for the environment.

　　While we’re talking aboutmarkets, we are staring at the biggest market in the world. Somepeople aretrying to grab it. But I want you to measure this. The market that created thegreatwealth of the United States in which every single quintile of incomeearners saw their incomes goup in the 1990s and created unprecedented wealth,more wealth than was ever created in theage of no income tax and the Pierpontsand Morgans and Rockefellers and so forth – much morewealth created in the1990s. That was a $1 trillion market with 1 billion users.

　　The global energy market is a $6trillion market, and today, it has 4 billion users and it willclimb tosomewhere around 6 or more, maybe 9 billion users over the next 40 to 50years,because that’s where the population of the planet is going. This is the mostincrediblemarket ever, and it is the solution, incidentally, to climatechange. So we’re going to fight tostay at the forefront of this energy market,recognizing that it has the benefits of climate changeas well as themarketplace. We’re going to develop the clean technologies that are going topowerthe world and protect our environment at the same time. Now, we’re onpace right now to bethe largest oil producer by 2020 – largest oil producer inthe world. Who would have thunk thatone a few years ago? And that gives us thepromise of alternative fuels, including shale gas,and we will become fullyenergy self-sufficient by the year 2035.

　　There’s another kind of energythat also, I think, drives us here in this country. It’s theenergy that fuelsour private sector, and that is the energy that comes out of an Americanvaluecalled entrepreneurship. The United States does know how to encourage andcultivatestartups, because not too long ago, our country was a startup.Innovation isn’t just in ourinterest; it’s in our DNA. And that’s why weaggressively protect intellectual property rightsas part of a strong,transparent, accountable legal system.

　　Today, we need entrepreneurshipmore than ever. As more and more young people join thelabor market, the worldis going to need about a half a billion new jobs by 2030, and many ofthosejobs I guarantee you have not even been invented yet. Entrepreneurship willhelp tosolve that puzzle, and SelectUSA can help.

　　A few weeks ago, I met withhundreds of entrepreneurs while I was in Kuala Lumpur. Thesewere innovatorswho came from all around the world and they couldn’t wait to build the nextbigthing. And who knows? The best ideas are never limited by borders, but thesefolks may bethe ones already changing the world. It’s that kind of opennessthat drives the Americaneconomy and foreign economies, and it moves all of usforward at the same time.

　　Now, needless to say, we have ourown interests here, for sure. It’s no secret that ourPresident’s number-onepriority is creating strong middle class jobs here at home. But he alsoknowsthat the best way to do that is to strengthen our international economic tiesand fosterbroad growth around the world.

　　We know that promoting inclusivegrowth and strengthening the rule of law in othercountries also helps us tocreate new markets for our businesses and jobs for our workers. Andwhen wehelp other nations to develop their own ability to govern and to meet theaspirations ofthat booming youth population I talked about, we foster stablesocieties, and everybody hereknows stability is pretty important with respectto investment decisions and prognosis.

　　We do what we do because we’vealways known that we’re sort of all in this together. We’reall connected inthis. And that’s another reason why the United States, we believe, is thebestplace to invest, because there’s no other country where you can be so confidentthat yourinvestment is going to contribute to a shared prosperity.

　　Now, that idea is really one ofthe cornerstones of our country. You saw it in the MarshallPlan. Marshall Planrebuilt a continent after a war, when all economies were just shatteredandbroken. And we stepped up and invested and loaned so that we could all share inthepostwar prosperity. You see it today in the recipients of Americanassistance who aregraduating from that assistance into full-fledgedpartnership in the trading community. Lookat South Korea. In less than ageneration, South Korea has been transformed from an aidrecipient to one ofthe major donors in the world today. That’s an incredible story. In fact,thattransformation describes 11 of our 15 largest trading partners. And that kindof sharedprosperity today is more important than ever before to the reasons Italked about earlier aboutyoung people and their aspirations.

　　We also know in the United Statesthat we are part of something much bigger than justbuying and selling, hiringand investing. Before anyone is a CEO or a Secretary of State, we arecitizens.And by virtue of the fact that you’re here, I know that you consider yourselvescitizensof the world. So remember: Our shared responsibility to ensure sharedprosperity is one of themost important ways that we advance shared security.

　　As Secretary of State, Iobviously travel a lot, and I do it for a reason: Because there isnosubstitute for face-to-face diplomacy. There’s no more reliable way to buildtrust, to ensureyour interests and values are aligned, to close a deal. Andthat’s why you’ve come here from allover the world to be in Washington thisweek – to meet each other face-to-face, to buildrelationships, and to sharethe ideas that could hopefully, conceivably, change the world.

　　As you build that confidence ineach other, I want you to know there is no market in theworld that I believedeserves your confidence more than this one. As investors, as friends, Ithinkyou understand the United States, despite momentary political hiccups anddespitesometimes the conflict of politics, still marches forward with aprivate sector that is increasinglyempowered to be able to define for itselfwhat the economic future will be.

　　My message to you is that now isthe best time to make that investment, and my pitch toyou is pretty direct:Get in on the ground flood of this century of possibilities andtransformation.The possibility of a great global century, a century hopefully that willbedefined almost exclusively by the shared prosperity that lifts people all overthe world andresolves so many of the conflicts and problems that we facetoday, because individuals whoyearn for the opportunity to touch what we haveare actually able to do so. You can be part ofthat transformation. In fact, itwon’t happen without you. And I hope the sooner we getaround to the businessof doing it, the sooner we will solve some of these challenges we facetoday.

　　Thank you for letting me be withyou. God bless. Thank you. Thank you.

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