Deborah Birx Quotes

I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to.

It is not enough to teach our young people to be successful...so they can realize their ambitions, so they can earn good livings, so they can accumulate the material things that this society bestows. Those are worthwhile goals. But it is not enough to progress as individuals while our friends and neighbors are left behind

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

I will be a president that can share a glass of soju with the public after work.

If you see a woman who is struggling with bags or looks struggling in general, help her. Don't leave her vulnerable to someone else.

I've just always got on with people older than me for some reason.

If we don't take responsibility for each other, it seems to me the future is going to be even bleaker.

I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.

Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.