奥巴马在德州大学就高等教育与经济关系发表重要讲话奥巴马在德州大学就高等教育与经济关系发表重要讲话 Hello, Austin! (Applause.) Hello, Longhorns! (Applause.) It is good to be back. It is good to be back. THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.) I love Austin. Love Austin. I remember - by the way, anybody whos got a seat, feel free to take a seat. (Laughter.) I remember paying you a visit during the campaign. (Applause.) Mack Brown gave me a tour of the stadium, along with Colt and a couple other guys. And I got a photo with the Heisman. (Laughter.) I rubbed the locker rooms Longhorns for good luck. (Applause.) And Im just saying, it might have had something to do with how the election turned out. (Applause.) There might be a connection there. I also remember the first time that I came to Austin on the campaign. And there are a number of friends who are here who have been great supporters; I want to make mention of them. Representative Lloyd Doggett is here, a great friend. (Applause.) Senator Kirk Watson is here. (Applause.) Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee is here. (Applause.) Mayor Leffingwell is here. (Applause.) And your own president, Bill Powers, is in the house. (Applause.) But this is back in 2007, February 2007. It was just two weeks after I had announced my candidacy. I know its hard to believe, but its true - my hair was not gray back then. (Laughter.) Not many people thought I had much of a shot at the White House. (Applause.) Let me put it this way, a lot of folks in Washington didnt think I had a shot at the White House. (Laughter.) A lot of people couldnt pronounce my name. (Laughter.) They were still calling me Alabama or Yo Mama - that was - (laughter.) So then I come to Austin, this was back in February of 2007. And it was a drizzly day, and that usually tamps down turnout. But when I got to the rally over at Auditorium Shores there was a crowd of over 20,000 people - 20,000 people. (Applause.) It was people of all ages and all races and all walks of life. And I said that day, all these people, they hadnt gathered just for me. You were there because you were hungry to see some fundamental change in America - (applause) - because you believed in an America where all of us - not just some of us, but all of us - no matter what we look like, no matter where we come from, all of us can reach for our dreams. All of us can make of our lives what we will; that we can determine our own destiny. And thats what weve been fighting for over the past 18 months. I said then that wed end the Iraq war as swiftly and as responsibly as possible - and that is a promise that we are keeping. This month we will end combat operations in Iraq. (Applause.) I said wed make health insurance more affordable and give you more control over your health care - and thats a promise were keeping. And by the way, young people are going to be able to stay on their parents health insurance until theyre 26 because of the law that we passed. (Applause.) I said wed build an economy that can compete in the 21st century - because the economy that we had even before the recession, even before the financial crisis, wasnt working for too many Americans. Too many Americans had seen their wages flat-line, their incomes flat-line. We were falling behind and unable to compete internationally. And I said we need an economy that puts Americans back to work, an economy thats built around three simple words - Made in America. (Applause.) Because we are not playing for second place. We are the United States of America, and like the Texas Longhorns, you play for first - we play for first. (Applause.) Now, when it comes to the economy, I said that in todays world were being pushed as never before. From Beijing to Bangalore, from Seoul to San Paolo, new industries and innovations are flourishing. Our competition is growing fiercer. And while our ultimate success has and always will depend on the incredible industriousness of the American worker and the ingenuity of American businesses and the power of our free market system, we also know that as a nation, weve got to pull together and do some fundamental shifts in how weve been operating to make sure America remains number one. So thats why Ive set some ambitious goals for this country. Ive called for doubling our exports within the next five years, so that were not just buying from other countries, I want us to sell to other countries. (Applause.) Weve talked about doubling our nations capacity to generate renewable energy by 2012, because Im actually convinced that if we control the clean energy future, then our economic future will be bright - building solar panels and wind turbines and biodiesel and - (applause.) And I want us to produce 8 million more college graduates by 2020, because - (applause) - because America has to have the highest share of graduates compared to every other nation. But, Texas, I want you to know we have been slipping. In a single generation, weve fallen from first pl