George McGovern Quotes

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

In my view, helping to feed a hungry world is Australia's greatest responsibility and opportunity in the 21st century.

For the first time we have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger.

I created FEED as a way to provide people with a tangible way to make an impact in the fight against hunger, with each purchase of a FEED product donating meals directly to children in need.

The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

I can't think of any issue that is more important than working to see that no schoolchild in this world goes hungry.

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

We Americans have food in massive oversupply. That oversupply has crushed farm prices. We must dispose of the surpluses in order to strengthen prices, and we should dispose of them by feeding the starving and hungry overseas and the malnourished at home.

The world is at a crossroads. Our generation may be the first in history with the knowledge, tools and resources to truly turn back the rising tide of hunger and misery.