Ted Deutch Quotes

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

In 2020, no child should go hungry, and yet, in South Carolina 1-in-5 children do.

The fact is, even one Maine kid going hungry is one kid too many.

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

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.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

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.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

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

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

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.

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

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.

The issue I have always felt most strongly about is hunger in America, in particular the children.

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as long as there are caring people to lend a hand. I've had to struggle in my past and I know what it's like to go without, so I try to do as much as I can to help bring awareness to an issue that hits very close to home for me.

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

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.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

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.

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