Pam Bondi Quotes

I prefer really often to talk to high school students, mostly because I think they're the future for us.

In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Coach K always wanted me to talk more, even when I was in college. That's something I'm going to do as I get older.

I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.

I'm here to make an impact on the kids who truly care.

When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.

I learned a lot of stuff from Jae Crowder.

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

If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.

I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.