Jack Monroe Quotes

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

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

I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

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

Growing up, I had a lot of family members who worked in the Dallas Independent School District, and they shared stories firsthand with me about kids stepping into the cafeteria hungry before practice, or waiting for the school building to open the next morning just so they could get a meal.

It was surprising how many kids don't have lunches. If we all get behind this cause, it'll help a lot of the kids out there who don't really get enough food.

If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? ... Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.

A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it's easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

One-fourth of the children in this country are poor—and they don't vote.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.

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

Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.