Youth Council Quotes

#1. You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

John M. Perkins

#2. How can he possibly think that I'll do whatever that he will ask of me? Oh right, I forgot. He's my kidnapper and I'm the one being kidnapped. That's why.

Ritika Chhabra

#3. Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

Gary Weiss

#4. I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Philip Larkin

#5. A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits.

Maria Cantwell

#8. In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

Rashida Jones

#9. That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#10. Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Bo Burnham

#11. If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.

Edward Gibbon

#12. Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you.

Ashleigh Brilliant