We have so much information but maybe we don't know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don't need young museums but we do need holy young people.

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.

Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.

The ideology of Marxism is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don't feel offended. ... The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefiting the poor. But what happens instead, is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger (and) nothing ever comes out for the poor.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.