Kweisi Mfume Quotes

A new era of responsibility is here.

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

Accountability goes hand in hand with reform.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Had there been the threat of Nuremburg-style trials for members of the apartheid state security establishment we would never have undergone a peaceful change.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

It's deeds we need, not words.

If heads don’t roll, nobody makes any changes

Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting.

We have a lot of things to work through. But the American people need to have confidence that we're going to change things, but we're going to move us in to a direction of more decisions and more choices, and not a diminishing of responsibility and care that people are really relied upon.

It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.