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We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
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We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.


Walter Dean Myers
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Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.


Jane Fonda
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Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
John Charles Polanyi
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My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!


Sophie B. Hawkins
Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
Russell Simmons
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Well, the fact that the news industry doesn't have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don't know how to get there.
Sebastian Junger
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I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.
Portia de Rossi
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
Kailash Satyarthi
And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.
George Martin
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What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.
John Spratt
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I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people.
Tina Majorino
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When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.


Bobby Orr
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In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'


Scott McClellan
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Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
Ben Affleck
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As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.
David Suzuki
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The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that... young people don't have hope.


Sister Souljah
I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.
Jessie J
I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
Eden Sher
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