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Remarks by the President at SelectUSA Investment Summit 总统在选择美国投资峰会上发表讲话 Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. 沃德曼公园万豪酒店，华盛顿哥伦比亚特区 October 31, 2013 2013年10月31日 Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Please have a seat. 谢谢。（掌声）非常感谢大家。请就坐。 To my great friend, Penny Pritzker, thank you for the kind words, but more importantly, thank you for your outstanding leadership, for bringing us all together today, and being such a strong voice for America’s workers and America’s businesses. 谢谢我的好友彭妮?普利茨克的溢美之词，但更重要的是，感谢你杰出的领导作用，让我们所有人今天汇聚一堂，并为美国员工和美国企业发出强有力的声音。 I want to acknowledge Acting Deputy Secretary Patrick Gallagher, Undersecretary Francisco Sanchez, and Vinai Thummalapally, and their team at SelectUSA. And I want to especially thank all of you -– state and local officials from across the country, and business leaders from around the world. 我要感谢代理副部长帕特里克?加拉格尔、副部长弗朗西斯科?桑切斯和维奈?图马拉帕利以及他们的选择美国团队。我还要特别感谢在座的各位——全国各地的州和地方官员，以及世界各地的商界领袖。 As President, I have gone all over the world to go to bat for American exports and American workers. I’ve been to many of your countries, and I’ve said that when we do business together, and when we trade and forge new partnerships, it’s good for all of us. I want more American products being sold in your countries, and I want your companies investing more here in the United States of America. Because it advances my top priority as President: creating good-paying American jobs and strengthening and broadening our middle class. There’s nothing more important right now. 作为总统，我出访世界各地为美国出口和美国员工争取机会。我到过你们中许多人的国家，我说过，如果我们一起从事商务活动、当我们进行贸易并缔结新的伙伴关系时，对我们大家都有益。我希望更多的美国产品销往各位的国家，我希望贵国公司更多地到美国投资。因为这能够推进我作为总统的首要任务：即创造薪酬优厚的美国就业机会，并加强和扩大我们的中产阶层。目前没有什么比这更重要的了。 And I’m here because I want your companies to know -- I want companies around the world to know -- that I believe there is no better place in the world to do business than the United States of America. Think about it: Globalization and technology means you can go just about anywhere. But ther