George McGovern Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

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?

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.

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 war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

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.

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.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

The right use of food can end hunger.

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.