英语课前大学生个人演讲稿（精选19篇）
Respect teacher, dear classmates, good morning!
Now, soil erosion is serious in our country, according to satellite remote sensing in 1992, covers an area of 179 soil and water loss. 4 square kilometers, 18 of the total land area. 7%. Desertification rapid development, desertification of land has reached 149 square kilometers, 15 of the total land area. 5%. Water pollution are also significantly increase, 42% of the city water is polluted.
The embankment with a small river near my house. It turns out that the water in the river bottom, the water and the freedom of fish were swimming. However, people often put the rubbish into the river to the, don't care for the environment. So lead to the river run gray, also an unpleasant smell, the fish died in the river.
The earth of the water resources, forest resources, biological resources, atmospheric resources... Could have continuous regeneration, make contributions to mankind over a long period of time. But people at random destruction of natural resources, not only make them not renewable, poses a serious threat to human existence, such as: forest resources will be long-term workers with down from one generation to another, but people only candy tree trees, not the hills near the bald, also can cause soil erosion, affect the preservation of water resources. If there is no water, we can survive?
The earth generous to raise our family. Shouldn't we should protect the ecological environment of the earth? Let us together to maintain the ecological balance of the earth, let the earth bring benefits to human better, make contributions to mankind!
My speech finished, thank you.
Schoolmates:
When you look the lovable animated cartoon, plays is in a stew human'sputer games, rides the fast train, is answering transoceanic telephone time,. . . . . . Not only your might once realize the science the strength, the sciencechanged this world, also changed our life, the science side us.
Opens for the 20th century the grand chapters, not only we discovered thehumanity to experience the blood and the fire baptism in these hundred years,has created the innumerable scientific miracles.
19th century france famous science fiction writer of fiction vernefictionalizing, at that time let the human be inconceivable, he fantasized moonlanding travel, the airplane, the long-range gun and so on, all 11 became thereality in the 20th century. In the 21st century today, the high tech isubiquitous.
As cross-century one generation, how posture should we adapt the newcentury by, the load get up the new century heavy burden? Not only science andtechnology changing with each new day, causes the science to serve for the mostadvanced technique, also more and more many seeps to during ours daily life,this needs us who is in the young people time to deeply love the science, thestudy science.
Participation science and technology “five small” petition, reading scienceand technology books, caused me to understand many truths. The precise robot,does not use the fuel the automobile, the hypothesized soccer game, high techinformation transmission and so on, each one vivid interesting phenomena,aroused me to explore the science the desire.
Everyone has a dream. Everyone's dream is different. Perhaps we are keen to fly, their ability to be able to rely on an out of the sky. Perhaps we are keen to dance in this short life left in fond memories.Our life only once, we should cherish it. Machine was no longer in your life do you want to do. Although we are still students, are studying, but we should be ahead of our future planning to do. You asked his high school What to do after graduation? Do you have to ask ourselves, What is the dream? Do you know what to do and learn? From that moment on, you ask yourself well. Since then, you may struggle with the goal, maybe you have from this program, maybe you should know how to cherish life. In that case, you will not waste his life !
All of these sound good. But they are only possibilities. To those of us who are bewildered at the abundance of opportunities, I would like to say: To choose means to accept challenge.
To us young people, challenge often emerges in the form of competition. In the next century, competition will not only come from other college graduates, but also from people of all ages and of all origins.
With increasing international exchanges, we have to face growing competition from the whole outside world. This is calling for a higher level of our personal development.
Fifteen years ago, the knowledge of a foreign language or of computer operation was considered merely an advantage. But today, with wider educational opportunities, this same knowledge has become essential to everyone.
Given this situation, even our smallest choices will require great wisdom and personal determination.
As we gain more initiative in choice making, the consequence of each choice also becomes more important.
As we gain more initiative in choice making, the consequence of each choice also becomes more important.
The vast historical tide, some successful, some failure; Some a fair death honors the whole life, some thing never dies. Ebb and flow, raise a number of "Confucius", which is mixed with many "qin GUI", carried away, that he wants to succeed by hook or by crook to get success, desire to have at the end of the day is celebrated, and find the right choice, but achievements generation of celebrities. Success, there are many paths, seeking a shortcut, tend to be at the end of the day to understand gave up a optimal choice and effort was not to make choices as it landed at all costs.
Reese, a desire for success, but "achievement" his "disease xian can envy", he should have been a generation of names, for the emperor should share, from a desire for success, by hook or by crook, he hit the han fei, creates the tragedy of burying Confucian. History is suppressed, the trend of the development of culture is suppressed, qin, Reese also destroyed, people took down the emperor, also remember the lis.
And qu yuan, created a new genre of Chinese literature, in a new way to the right interpretation of Chinese culture. Mr Yu optimal such a sentence: "the era of cultural celebrities, the more often not compatible with his age." Qu yuan is no exception, he king, dragon's loyal due diligence, was shangguan doctor again and again of slander, and king huai, in the adulation of again and again to please blinds, unexpectedly also close, far from xian. Qu yuan to get the release time of exile, destroyed, chu qu yuan died also. Can he live in people's hearts, the spirit of eternal. "World-wide all muddy I alone, public all drunk I wake up alone, 500 - word article 15 and successful composition
Once together at the same time, but Reese is celebrated "disease virtuous envy can" synonymous with, they are eager to be the world recognize, in their time, Reese seems to be just, and qu yuan, under the scholar of whitewash, he lost, lost to their eras.
Today, history proves that everything: qu yuan remain through the ages, Reese thing never dies.
Investigate the root cause, they choose different, however, made of qu yuan, has produced Reese.
Need a lot of success: timing, location, and; One percent talent and ninety-nine percent effort, but the most important thing is how to choose, the right choice is necessary for success. Nature is the choice of drop of water in the sea, and it will never dried up, the eagle chose the blue sky, so it's achievements dream.
Have you ever watched the famous cartoon"Happy sheep and gray wolf",which captures the hearts of millions of kids and even teenagers.
I'm sure you can't forget the vivid character---Red Wolf,which is a snippy,violent and hot-tempered wife with her symbolic action:throw a pan to her husband and shout out " go and catch the sheep! or never come back".In fact,this is a truly reflection that female are gradually dominating the society.Girls are the bosses.
According to a report by CNN in 20xx,women in the US earned 59 percent of all college degrees,surpassing men by almost 3 to 2.while in 1970,41 years ago,men earned that percentage of all college degrees.Similarly, in China,it's estimated that female college students surpassed male students in numbers on campus for the first time in history in 20xx,which accounts for 51%.Although we,the students in WHUT,can't feel it,because the majority here are males.But think about the fact that,the female ratio of freshmen in Huazhong Normal University this year is 70%.So next time,when you're free,why not go to Huazhong Normal University,just walk around the campus,and you will enjoy a different scenery.
Back to our topic, Gu haibing,professor in the School of Econmics at Renmin University of China,attributes this to the education system.He says girls gain the edge with their better discipline and memory-based studying method "However , a gender imbalance on campus caused by female students outperforming their male counterparts reflects a global trend.
The 20xx Olympics have been hailed as the "Year of the women",according to Time magazine,because 58 of the US team 103 medals were won by women and for the first time Muslim women from Saudi-Arabia,Qatar and Brunei ere allowed to compete in the event.
Furthermore,as we have known, Madame Curie is one of the greatest scientists around the world,and she is a woman;"Iron lady "Margaret thatcher is the one of the most prominent politician,and she is a woman; Oprah Winfrey is the household hostess of talk show,and she is a woman. And examples like this can be taken endlessly as you want.
So here ,the men compatriot,watch out,we are fallen behind!
First of all, I would like to thank today that I can stand here toparticipate in the activities of all the people, including me. The topic of myspeech today is "thankful heart".
Some say, forget gratitude is human nature. When we accidentally came tothis world, haven't had time to do anything, we have already started to enjoythe former brings us all material and spiritual achievements. It's remind everyone of us, to have a grateful heart.
Have a heart of gratitude, more respect. Respect for life, respect forlabor, respect creation. Hearts with gratitude, a generation of great men -small - deng ping said in three score and ten "I am the son of the Chinesepeople, I deeply love my country and my people!" With a grateful heart, the poetai qing wrote in his poem: "why my eyes full of tears, because I have deep loveto this land." Heard of the story of a man apologized to the tree? Heard of allthe running car to make way for the dog's story? The true story, touched by alove of life, moved by people respect for life. When we enjoy a cleanenvironment every day, we would like to thank those cleaning workers; When wemove to a new house, we would like to thank those construction workers; When wetravel, would like to thank the driver... Understand thank you, you will belooked upon with equal every life, to treat everyone around us, an ordinaryordinary labor, respect each also respect yourself more.
Have a heart of gratitude, more can realize his duty. In modern society,everyone has their own duties, their value. When one of China's top ten __ touched xu benyu screen, goodness of human nature was lit again, this wasoriginally the college students into graduate school, but they threw into themountains from the bustling city. This extraordinary feat hurt everyone's eyes,each person heart is also lit up a smoldering fire. And let him to make a choiceof the reason is simple: with a grateful heart. Xu benyu with his gratitude forthe mountains children paved the road to a love, lit the poverty and hope,completed his duty, realize the value of his life.
With a grateful heart, is not a simple endurance and tolerance, more not q,but with a generous mind brave face life positively. I believe, the most warmday from the cold, I believe, the most warm is an understanding of the cold,moved in a kind of gratitude. One must learn to Thanksgiving, to life with agrateful heart, heart to real happiness. A person without gratitude, heart isall empty. "YangYouGuiRuZhiEn", "crow has feedback of grace", "send person rose,the hand have lingering fragrance", "give me your hand, and son xielao," theseare due to have a grateful heart, sweet, freely available.
So I want to thank you, my life of passers-by, let me know how light fadesto don't tie to the mind, thank you, come and go, I will cherish; Thank you, allthe teachers in my life, let me know how precious knowledge, thank you,following years, I will remember; Thank you, my life close to close friend,share happy with you, sad have to listen to you, thank you, busy, I won'tforget; Thank you, I to really beloved relatives, in the course of time, quietlywatch over me, shelter from the rain, let me in happiness to be loved alsolearned how to love others, thank you, day and night, I have in my heart.
Thank day litres of sunset, thank happy pain, thanks to the earth, the skythank heaven all the stars, thanks to life, thanks to get and lose everything,and nothing had lost everything, let me in the season of the grass sprout out ofthe earth came up the beauty of life!
My friends, let us with a grateful heart facing the world! Let's heartswith gratitude to our life! As long as our life is full of gratitude, full ofhope and passion, our society will be less criticism and shuffle, more tolerantand understanding, would be less quarrel with indifference, and - more harmonyand warm, would be less tricking and dysfunctional, more sincere and unity, ourspiritual home will forever young...
Finally, let's get together again to listen to this song "grateful heart" :Thanksgiving heart, thank you, with my life, let me have the courage to domyself, Thanksgiving heart, thank fate, flowers bloom, I cherish.
Today my speech to this end, thank you
There was once a guy who suffered from cancer, a cancer that can?'t be cured. He was 18 years old and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he was sick of staying home and wanted to go out for once. So he asked his mother and she gave him permission.
He walked down his block and found a lot of stores. He passed a CD store and looked through the front door for a second as he walked. He stopped and went back to look into the store. He saw a beautiful girl about his age and he knew it was love at first sight. He opened the door and walked in, not looking at anything else but her. He walked closer and closer until he was finally at the front desk where she sat.
She looked up and asked, “Can I help you?”
She smiled and he thought it was the most beautiful smile he has ever seen before and wanted to kiss her right there.
He said, “Uh… Yeah… Umm… I would like to buy a CD.”
He picked one out and gave her money for it.
"Would you like me to wrap it for you?” she asked, smiling her cute smile again.
He nodded and she went to the back. She came back with the wrapped CD and gave it to him. He took it and walked out of the store.
He went home and from then on, he went to that store every day and bought a CD, and she wrapped it for him. He took the CD home and put it in his closet. He was still too shy to ask her out and he really wanted to but he couldn't. His mother found out about this and told him to just ask her. So the next day, he took all his courage and went to the store as usual. He bought a CD like he did every day and once again she went to the back of the store and came back with it wrapped. He took it and when she wasn't looking, he left his phone number on the desk and ran out…
One day the phone rang, and the mother picked it up and said, “Hello?”
It was the girl! The mother started to cry and said, “You don?'t know? He passed away yesterday…”
The line was quiet except for the cries of the boy's mother. Later in the day, the mother went into the boy?'s room because she wanted to remember him. She thought she would start by looking at his clothes. So she opened the closet.
She was face to face with piles and piles and piles of unopened CDs. She was surprised to find all these CDs and she picked one up and sat down on the bed and she started to open one. Inside, there was a CD and as she took it out of the wrapper, out fell a piece of paper. The mother picked it up and started to read it. It said: Hi… I think U R really cute. Do u wanna go out with me? Love, Jocelyn.
The mother was deeply moved and opened another CD…
Again there was a piece of paper. It said: Hi… I think U R really cute. Do u wanna go out with me? Love, Jocelyn.
Love is… when you?'ve had a huge fight but then decide to put aside your egos, hold hands and say, “I Love You.”
The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades; and we neglect the need for character cultivation. but again, the cynics are wrong. we care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.
as college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. we all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. i believe in all my fellow classmates. though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. i believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. we are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. i believe in our future.
as we know,you have to learn how to fly much more independently instead ofunder your parents’ considerate protection when you get into college,which alsomeans you will e across enormous questions that should be solved by yourself.from my point of view,those main problems can fall into three parts.
first of all,the plicated relationship. for one thing,you have to knowhow cultural differences function in your relationship and respect them. inaddition,college students spend less time studying together owing to differentcourses’ choosing,which requires us to devote more energy to buildingrelationship. for the other thing,it is also vital to municate with yourparents often by using mobile phones or other tools.
secondly,the temptations. the college serves us a more relaxed environmentmixed with other temptations such as the internet,alcohols and so on. what’smore,the college teachers won’t pel you to study like before,you doze off orplay cell phone in class,and you flee up the morning class because you get uptoo late. such too frequent behaviors will cripple your passion and enthusiasmtowards life,so it is essential for us to resist these temptations and insistpursuing our own goals.
thirdly,the balance between study and work. most of us will choose to takea part time job to earn the extra money or just to exercise ourselves. but it issignificant to keep a relatively balanced relationship between them since ialways regard the study as our main task,so my principle is adjusting work tofollow the schedule of study.
in conclusion,whatever issues we meet or miseries we suffer from,confrontthe hash reality head on,what we can do is remembering the past,living in thepresent and looking forward to the future.
Safety has become the focus to us all. How to be safe at school is especially important to us students.
How to be safe at school is especially important to us students. First, we should take care not to get ourselves injured while we are having sports.
Second, there are too many students at school, and our hallways are too narrow. So don’t crowd with each other especially when we go upstairs or downstairs.
Or there may be an accident. Besides, we should be friendly and get on well with others, don’t quarrel or even fight. Last but not least, we should be careful to eat healthy food and keep away from junk food, which is harmful to our health.
In a word, it’s important to remember these for us all.
My campus lifeWhen the breeze gently hold when LiuXu savoury, When the sun put it golden glorious quietly around the cherry blossom trees on appered handsome; When the beautiful petals in the air to reach several commonly roll long, then gently landed, we are enjoying a brilliant happiness of campus life.
Early morning, happy bird singing, accompany us go strollw floral path and watched the we walked into the campus, eye is full of happiness. Sunshine shop in writing has "e, nanjing normal university affiliated yangzi dickers" e, The bronze medal and put downy light reflection to our body, we cheerfully accepted this light, vigorous entered in campus. On the way to the classroom, and every day that we can all see beautiful fountain and pool, and forceful huaihe books and rather ?
granny liu, a distant kinsfolk, in a dream of the red mansions , claims kinship with the wealthy jia family, thinking that she may benefit from it in some ways. liu might have run away without any traces if the jia family had been a poor one. another saying goes “close neighbors are better than distant relatives.” the most difficult is to manage the relatives when doing business together, just as what the tv series program liu laogen discloses. it is all right to stay poor together, but as soon as the business grows prosperous, the group will become estranged and even dissolve because of the unfair distribution. family love is like a maze which we shouldn't go too far into it, otherwise, we'll surely get lost. love is a bilateral matter and unilateral love can only lead you to nowhere in spite of your good intentions. family love is, sometimes, like an arranged marriage, leaving no choices to you. due to the different experiences and tastes, staying together temporarily can be entertaining, while living together for a long time can only be boring due to the lack of common interest and understanding. how can we communicate with each other without understanding? parents have the duty to support the children who are not yet economically independent, and children have the responsibility to provide for the elderly parents who are lack of economic abilities to support themselves. except these two kinds of duties which we must fulfill, other kinds of love become conventional formalities such as paying visit to the sick or the dead and giving presents to the newly-born etc.
no love among relatives has become a normal phenomenon which needn't to be fussed about. what's worse is when love is contaminated by money. sooner or later we will get hurt. the sooner we get out of this net of love, the more we can preserve beautiful memories.
we are not living in vacuum, and the society is formed of various kinds of people. as long as we want to live, study, or work, we have to contact, communicate and cooperate with others. those who enjoy common interests, mutual understanding, common undertakings and common benefits become friends.
Many people burn incense and kowtow, do good deeds and strive for virtues, not just for the present, but mainly to let God see their sincerity so as to be reborn into a better afterlife, or to achieve the highest enlightenment after several lives of practice. They do believe in afterlife. But I can't help asking: Suppose there were no afterlife, would you still do good deeds and strive for virtues? And If God does not see what you are doing, would you still be so upright and selfless? If you work, not for serving the public and liberating the others, but just for a better afterlife of your own, isn't it a little too selfish? Comparing with this kind of believers, those who don't believe in afterlife, but still keep doing good deeds, are the most sincere and honest philanthropists, because they do them not for themselves but for other.
You may wonder if I believe in afterlife. My answer is: I know nothing about my previous life, so I dare not make improper comments on afterlife. But I do hope there's afterlife! Because our present life is so short that so many things slip away before our proper understanding. I have so many dreams, so many wishes, so many ambitions, as well as so many regrets and concerns. If there were no afterlife, all of them will remain unrealized!
I'm not contented with the present commonplace life, I'm very much attached to the affections that should have been mine but have been washed away by the hurrying time, and I yearn for the perfection and maturity if I could start all over again. So believe it or not, I'd rather there were afterlife.
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On my birthday two years ago, many special things happened on me. and i wouldremember them morning, i rode my bike to school happily as usual. on my way to the classroom, i saw some of my classmates. but when they saw me, they rushed away. that made me confused. because they would talk to me or play jokes on me before. but it was strange i came into the classroom, i found the atmosphere was quite strange.
Everybody looked at me and laughed loudly. suddenly they all said in good order,“happy birthday to you!” then they began to sing “happy birthday to you~~~~~~” that made me moved. i never told anyone about my birthday, how did they know? i believed they must have done a lot of things. at that moment, i found nothing to say but thanks instead!
After school, a thing coming as a surprise happened on me on my way back home. when i was riding suddenly a crowed of people rushed out to stopped my bike.i recogized them at once. they were my senior classmates. they all comlained to me,“why don't you tell us about your birthday? don't you fear that we will let you stand treat? this time you owe us.” then each of them gave a gift and a card with best wishes to me. i was deeply moved again. i suggested having a dinner together. but they all refused because of the time. then they left me saying we would ask you to pay us another day!
When i got back home, i thought of everything happened today. suddenly i felt so happy because i had such great friends around me. i thanked them from the bottom of my heart. i would value the precious friendship forever!
I have so many feelings through that special day. the only rose without thorns in the world is friendship. a true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. one friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. stick to make friends, forlife without friends is like life on a desert island. to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune, to keep him is a blessing.
Thank you for your attention!
Good es and gentlemen, it's my honor to be here today to giveyou this speech. My name is susan.I'd like to talk about job satisfaction. Now,please look at the powerpoint.I have dividied my talk into threeparts:firstly,the importance of job satisfaction; secondly,the factors of jobsatisfaction;finally,how to achieve job satisfaction. Now, let's start with thefirst part:
The importance of job satisfaction. A job provides an individual with thenecessary means to remain satisfied in almost every aspect of life such asleisure,health and social ral key factors are thought to be criticalfor an employee to achieve job satisfaction. Let's turn to the second part: thefactors of job satisfaction. A reasonable salary is of course the most importantfactor in job satisfaction.
In many people's minds,an ideal job is first of all a well-paid one, whichmakes the employee feel that he is fairly rewarded for what he has done for her important element of job satisfaction is the nature of the jobitself. Job satisfaction can never be achieved if the employee'seducation,skilsand lly,job satisfaction is closely associated with being part ofthe decision-making process in the company as well as having opportunities forpromotion Let's leave that there, now, let's come to the last part: how toachieve job satisfaction.
For an individual employee,finding the right job and trying to staypositive minght be the first step towards achieving job fulfillment andsatisfaction. I'll briefly summarize the main parts. Let me just run over thekey points again. Firstly,the importance of job satisfaction;
Secondly,the factors of job satisfaction;finally,how to achieve jobsatisfaction. In conclusion, job satisfaction plays an important role in thecompany and is the key index to influence the we should try our best to achieve it.
Whether there's afterlife, the answer has never been the same. The atheists deny after life, believing that our life is no more than from the cradle to the grave. They may care about their illustrious names after death; they may feel attached to the affection of their offspring, but they never lay their hopes on their afterlife. They may also say that good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil, but they don't really believe any retribution in their after life.
However, in the religious world or among the superstitious people, the belief in afterlife is very popular. They do not only believe in afterlife, but thousands of reincarnations as well. In the mysterious world, there are the paradise and the hell, the celestial beings and the gods, the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas.
Maybe they really believed it, or maybe they just wanted to make use of people's veneration, the ancient emperors always declared that they were the real dragons, the sons of God, while the royal ministers claimed to be the reincarnations of various constellations. But can the stars reincarnate?
Many people burn incense and kowtow, do good deeds and strive for virtues, not just for the present, but mainly to let God see their sincerity so as to be reborn into a better afterlife, or to achieve the highest enlightenment after several lives of practice. They do believe in afterlife. B
One night，I plained to my mom about the lack of time。 Finally shesaid，"you are short of time just because you waste precious minutes on plaintsand anxiety。 The point is，no matter how full your schedule is，if you tryreally hard，you can always fit in some thing more。"
It is the same with filling the jar。 Even if you place a dozen fist-sizedrocks and a bucket of gravel into the jar，there is still space for sand andwater between the rocks and gravel。
The lack of time is just the excuse for my negligence of every singleminute。 I believe that the great dividing line between success and failure canbe expressed in six words，"I did not have enough time。"The fact is I do haveexactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller，Pasteur，Thomas Jefferson，and Albert Einstein。 The point is I have nevertouched upon the real meaning of life which lies in snatching，seizing andenjoying every minute of it。 No idleness，no delay，no procrastination，noplaint! It is during my moments of plaining or hesitation that my destiny isshaped。 Once I make full use of every moment，I believe that，my worries will begradually cut down to nothing。
Time is the most valuable of all our possessions，but the most perishableas well。 As Henry David Thoreau said，"You must live in the present，launchyourself on every wave，find your eternity in each moment。"
Whenever I fell the lack of time in the future，I will tell myself "Carpediem，seize the day，make every moment count。"
You know, you know, we started this great effort on a sunny july morning in pinders corner on pat and liz moynihan's beautiful farm and 62 counties, 16 months, 3 debates, 2 opponents, and 6 black pantsuits later, because of you, here we are.
you came out and said that issues and ideals matter, jobs matter, downstate and upstate, health care matters, education matters, the environment matters, social security matters, a woman's right to choose matters. it all matters and i just want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you, new york!
thank you for opening up your minds and your hearts, for seeing the possibility of what we could do together for our children and for our future here in this state and in our nation. i am profoundly grateful to all of you for giving me the chance to serve you.
i will - i will do everything i can to be worthy of your faith and trust and to honor the powerful example of senator daniel patrick moynihan. i would like all of you and the countless new yorkers and americans watching to join me in honoring him for his incredible half century of service to new york and our nation. senator moynihan, on behalf of new york and america, thank you.