THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Good afternoon. I know everybody is itching（发痒，渴望） to get out of here and spend some time with their families. I am, too. I noticed some of you colleagues have been re

Thank you very much. It's great to be back and I just want to stay for the record, the class of 88-89 was by far the best class. 十分感谢，我很高兴回来。我在这里郑重声明，88-89届学生是迄今为止最棒的。 The decision to write a book

And they had traveled from near, they had traveled from far,because they wanted to make their voices heard. 有些住在附近，有些远道而来,但他们都想表达自己的声音 And I asked one of the voters, I said, Whom are you going to vote

For a minute, I felt like my existence as a person had been noticed, and I was worth saving. 有那么一会儿，我觉得我的存在被人注意到了，并且我是值得被拯救的。 The really sad thing is, in many parts of the world, 但让人遗憾的是，在世界的很多地方， we'

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.