Quotes About Youth

I was a big 'Pole Position' fan. I've been playing games for a long time.

I know how young black men are seen. They're boys - scared little boys, oftentimes. I was one of them. I was completely afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department.

We want the police to be young, educated, and have a completely different outlook.

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

I can remember being young and being outside and watch guys go through what they go through with the police, and old ladies come outside their house and be like, 'Oh, Lord, they're hitting him,' or whatever is happening. You see it right in front of your face.

I've been learning about defunding our investment in police force mentality, and reinvesting in, what do young people need? What do people who get involved in drugs need, what do families need outside of money to take care of their families?

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers.

Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

We need to make sure that our policymakers and politicians realize that we are the future of the country, not only by words. We should ask them to invest the right resources for every school, every hospital and every community.

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.

Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with.

Political movements always belong to the young.

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.

One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Millennials are the future of our country and of our political parties, and they shouldn't be unfairly characterized or labeled. They deserve to be heard.

For the last 20 years, political parties have had a one-way relationship with youth - of exploiting them for political gains and denying them their dues.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.