Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

Our Party attaches great importance to the work with young people and firmly believes in them.

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

I've always been a youth advocate. I mean, that's been my brand, reaching out to young people. All my life, when I've dealt with youth I'd be thinking back to my own experience. Now I look at my kids and think forward.

Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand.

I have a lot of time for young people.

I have a thing about working with young people. I adore them.

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.

Empowering the youth is our responsibility, and the youth will be empowered with more investment on them.

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

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

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

I love the young people.

I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

I am the president of the youth of France.

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

Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

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.

I feel like my role is to be one of those voices who reaches the youth.

We need to get young people involved in the running of this country.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights supports youth reentry projects because my father cared deeply about children and young people involved in the juvenile justice system, part of his focus while serving as attorney general.

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

DoSomething.org believes you don't have to wait to be Bono or Bill Gates to make a difference. Teens are super creative and passionate. We're unlocking that power by leveraging pop culture and communications technologies to get kids to do great stuff offline.

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.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

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