Jenna Bush Quotes

Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.

It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible.

Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

I just think it's crazy that we don't think that the youth are valid. They're the ones who really know what's going on.

We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth.

It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

The youth are the catalysts for real change.

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.

We should entrust our young people with a voice to express their views on what their futures should look like.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.