John Redwood Quotes

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

You don’t just cut off a bread subsidy after 60 years.

It’s poverty and hunger that drive these students to the madrasahs.

He whose belly is full believes not him whose is empty.

The hungry and homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care for cultural heritage.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

I asked for help and you send me a bulletin. The people of New York can not feed their children on Department bulletins.

The awful phantom of the hungry poor.