Buzz Aldrin Quotes

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.

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

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

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.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

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.

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.

I feel I should do everything I can to make a difference in Haiti. My main goal to help the people of Haiti is to give them homes, food, and jobs. It is heartbreaking to see little children sleeping on the ground in tents made of trash bags. I hope that we can put an end to this type of poverty not only in Haiti, but in the entire world.

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 would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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.

You can’t build peace on empty stomachs.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

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

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger

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.

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

If I could wave a magic wand, I would love for all children around the world to have good, nutritious meals every day.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

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.

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

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

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!