Gwen Ifill Quotes

I'm on a mission partly to make a difference in the world for the better, starting with the kids. They are the future.

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

From a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave the country as good as he had found it.

I think young people can make such an extraordinarily important difference in making this world a better place.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

Growing up there was always a sense of 'We have so many gifts and we have to use that for the betterment of the planet.'

I want to impact the world through futuristic yet affordable technologies to make the world a better place.

I don't want the world to get any worse. I want to make it better.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.