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1、12-1 BillBillBillBill ClintonClintonClintonClinton atatatat YaleYaleYaleYale CommencementCommencementCommencementCommencement 2010201020102010 SpeechSpeechSpeechSpeech TranscriptTranscriptTranscriptTranscript Thank you very much, Caitlin, Bobby, ladies and gentlemen. I wasnt sure I was coming to fas
2、hion week. President Levin, Vice President Lorimer, if I had - you know, all I got was this little class napkin. I feel if it were a little bigger, Id turn it into a doo-rag so I could feel right at home. LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE I just went over and said a word to Dean Brenzel, because you may have se
3、en he had an article in the Huffington Post. It said, now if theyd asked me to give this speech, this is what I would have said. Its really good. Its really good. But if you had done that then Id have missed all your hats. How could anybody possibly be worried about the future of the world when its
4、in your hand? APPLAUSE I mean anybody with this kind of judgment and head gear will have no problem solving all the other challenges. Let me say, in all seriousness, Im honored to be here. I congratulate the graduates, and I want to thank you and your families, your friends, the faculty and staff fo
5、r letting me share this day. I am profoundly grateful to Yale because of the things I learned, the professors I had, the friends of a lifetime, the fact that I still work with a lot of people from Yale in public health and endeavors we have together in Ethiopia and in Liberia. The President of Liber
6、ia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is here and I thank her. But most of all, Im grateful because if I hadnt come here I never would have met Hilary. APPLAUSE So, shes been in Shanghai for two days at this big world expo theyre having over there, and she called me last night and told me she had given this spe
7、ech and how much it meant to her, how much you loved it. She didnt prepare me for your sartorial splendor quite as much as she should have, but Im very proud of the work shes doing and Im very grateful to Yale because I would have missed it if I hadnt come here. And weve had a remarkable life togeth
8、er. I say that because weve been gone from Yale since 1973 - thats 37 years, if my math still works. And yet it seems to me as if we were here yesterday. 12-2 So I thought and thought and thought. I said how can I be brief, which I owe you - you know, when you have as good a sense of humor as youve
9、displayed today, youre at least entitled to a short speech, and still say something that might be helpful. Heres the best I can do. The world you are going into that you will shape, should be the most interesting, exciting, fulfilling, stunning time in human history. I mean after all, weve torn down
10、 all these barriers of time and space and people are no longer confined to where they were born, and so America has become explosively diverse. You might be interested to know that at our pavilion in Shanghai, one of the things that is most emphasized is how theres somebody here from everywhere. Im
11、trying to get the World Cup of soccer to come to America in 2018 or 2022, and my main pitch is this is the only place you can go where everybody will have a home team cheering squad. Its an amazing thing and it makes life a lot more interesting. The internet is amazing. When I became President, beli
12、eve it or not - I know for a lot of you this is the dark ages, but it was really just yesterday - on January of 1993, January 20th, you know how many sites there were on the entire worldwide web? 50. 5-0. More than that have been added since I started talking. The average cell phone on the day I too
13、k the Oath of Office weighed five pounds. Now you know somebody like me with big hands has to have one wide enough so that you only had to redial about one in every four times. Its a fascinating time. Look at all these scientific discoveries that have been coming out - the genome was sequenced first
14、 in 2000, probably the major scientific advance of the eight years I served, and I spent a lot of your familys tax money trying to get that done. LAUGHTER But certainly the most amusing, off-shoot of genome research appeared the last couple of weeks when we learned that every one of us in our genomi
15、c make up are between 1% and 4% descended from neanderthals. And Im glad all of us made it because if only the men had made it, wed never hear the end of it. 12-3 And now we all have an excuse for every dumb thing weve ever done going back to age five. Its great. I say that but it is interesting. It
16、 is interesting furthermore that the genome sequencings first profoundly significant finding was that, from a genetic point of view, all human beings are 99.9% the same. Then Craig Ventors independent project said, no thats all wrong, were only 99.5% the same. Now with three billion units, 4/10 of 1% is significant, but from a social, political, philosophical point of view, it doesnt matter. You just look around this vast crowd of your classmates, every single physical difference you can
