William Safire Quotes

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it.

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.

Hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans

Hunger in America is an American problem. The hunger of one should be the concern of all. Especially the hunger of children - our children.

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.

I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.