杨安泽在第五次总统候选人辩论会上的全部发言（节选）

杨安泽在11月20日举行的第5次民主党总统候选人辩论会上的全部发言，包括4次回答主持人提问，和1个结束语，总共只有7分钟不到。虽然他的发言时间短，但是发言质量很高，言之有物，尤其是最后的结语，从自已的家人说起，讲到自己的抱负--去帮助这个国家和她的人民，颇为感人。下面是Rev.com整理的跟杨安泽有关的发言稿（英文节选），在此分享。

Mr. Yang, you’ve made a virtue of your outsider status. You’ve never served in the military, or in government. What has prepared you to respond to a terrorist attack or a major disaster?

Well first, I just want to stick up for Tom. We have a broken campaign finance system, but Tom has been spending his own money fighting climate change, and you can’t knock someone for having money and spending it in the right way, my opinion.

Thanks Andrew.

Yeah, no problem. As Commander in Chief, I think we need to be focused on the real threats of the 21st century. And what are those threats? Climate change, artificial intelligence, loose nuclear material, military drones, and non-state actors. And if you look up, we’re in the processof potentially losing the AI arms race to China right now. Because they have more access to more data than we do, and their government is putting billions of dollars to work subsidizing the development of AI in a way that we are not. We are 24 years behind on technology, and I can say that with authority, because we got rid of the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995. Think about that timing. I guess they thought they’d invented everything. 

Thank you, Mr. Yang.

We now focus on an issue facing many Americans, childcare and paid family leave. Here in Georgia, the average price of infant daycare can be as much as $8,500 per child per year. That’s more than in state tuition at a four year public college in Georgia. Mr. Yang, what would you do as president to ease that financial burden?

There are only two countries in the world that don’t have paid family leave for new moms, the United States of America and Papua New Guinea, that is the entire list and we need to get off this list as soon as possible. I would pass paid family leave is one of the first things we do. I have two kids myself who are four and seven, one of whom is autistic and has special needs and it’s breaking families backs.

We need to start supporting our kids and families from the beginning because by the time they’re showing up to Pre-K and kindergarten, in many cases, they’re already years behind. Studies have shown that two thirds of our kids’ educational outcomes are determined by what’s happening to them at home. This is stress levels, number of words read to them as children, type of neighborhood, whether a parent has time to spend with them.

So we need to have a freedom dividend in place from day one, $1,000 a month for every American adult, which would put in many cases, $2,000 a month into families pockets so that they can either pay for childcare or if they want stay home with the child. We should not be pushing everyone to leave the home and go to the work force. Many parents see that trade off and say if they leave the home and work, they’re going to be spending all the money on childcare anyway. In many cases, it’d be better if the parents stays home with the child.

Thank you, Mr. Yang.

Mr. Yang. If you win the 2020 election, what would you say? In your first call with Russian President, Vladimir Putin?

Well, first I’d say, “I’m sorry I beat your guy.”

It’s a sorry, you’re not sorry?

Well, not sorry. And second, I would say the days of meddling in American elections are over and we will take any undermining of our democratic processes as an act of hostility and aggression. The American people would back me on this. We know that they’ve found an underbelly and they’ve been clawing at it and it’s made so that we can’t even trust our own democracy.The third thing I would say is that we’re going to live up to our international commitments. We’re going to recommit to our partnerships and alliances including NATO. And it was James Mattis, who said that the more you invest in diplomats and diplomacy, the less you have to spend on ammunition.

That has to be the path forward to help build an international consensus, not just against Russia, but also to build a coalition that will help us put pressure on other countries with bad behaviors. I want to propose a new world data organization, like a WTO for data because right now unfortunately we’re living in a world where data is the new oil and we don’t have our arms around it. These are the ways that we’ll actually get Russia to the table and make it so they have to join the international community and stop resisting appeals to the world order.

Thank you, Mr. Yang.

Mr. Yang, what would you do about the issue of white supremacist violence?

Well, first we have to designate white supremacist terrorism as domestic terrorism so that the Department of Justice can properly measure it. I talked to an anti- hate activist named Christian Picciolini, who told me about how he was radicalized over a 10 year period. He said he was a lonely 14-year-old and that he was reached out to by a hate group and he wound up joining it for a decade. Now, he’s out and he’s helping convert people out of those hate groups and back into the rest of society. But what he told me was that if anyone had reached out to him when he was that hurt, broken 14-year-old boy, he would have gone with them.

He said, “If it had been a coach I would have gone with him. If it had been a mentor teacher, I would have gone with them, but instead it was a hate group.” What we have to do is we have to get into the roots of our communities and create paths forward for men in particular, who right now are falling through the cracks. And when you look at gun violence in this country, 96 plus percent of the shooters we’re talking about are young boys and young men. We have to as a country start finding ways to turn our boys into healthy, strong, young men who do not hate, but instead feel like they have paths forward in today’s economy.

Mr. Yang, thank you for that. Vice President Biden. The Me Too Movement, has forced a cultural reckoning around the issue of sexual violence and harassment against women in America. Are there specific actions that you would take early in your administration to address this problem?

I’m here with my wife Evelyn, tonight. We have two young boys, Christopher and Damian. How many of you all are parents like us here in the room? If you’re a parent, you’ve had this thought. Maybe you’ve been afraid to express it, and it is this, our kids are not all right. They’re not all right because we’re leaving them a future that is far darker than the lives that we have led as their parents. We are going through the greatest economic transformation in our country’s history, the fourth industrial revolution, and it is pushing more and more of our people to the side. We talk as if Donald Trump is a cause of all of our problems. He is not. He is a symptom and we need to cure the disease.

Now, my first move was not to run for president of the United States because I am not insane. My first move was to go to D.C., talk to our leaders and say, “Technology is ripping us apart. Immigrants are being scapegoated, our kids are being left behind and the American dream that my parents came here to find is dying before our eyes.” The people in Washington D.C. had nothing for this. They don’t want to touch it. They don’t want to talk about an issue they don’t think they have a solution for. I’m not running for president because I fantasized about being president.

I’m running for president because like many of you here in this room tonight, I’m a parent and a patriot and I have seen the future that we’re leaving for our kids. It is not something I’m willing to accept. We need to create a new way forward for our people. If you want to join us in rewriting the rules of the 21st century economy, go to Yang2020.com, and make it so that we can look our kids in the eyes and say to them and believe it, “Your country loves you, your country values you and you will be all right.”

说明：Ashley Parker和Kristen Welker是主持人之二。Tom Steyer和Senator Warren是另外两个候选人。辩论会总共两个小时，括号内为发言开始时间。