food insecurity quotes

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.