Dan Maffei Quotes

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

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

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

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

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

I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

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

Food stamps are an investment in our future.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bengal Famine, Parliament is likely to pass the National Food Security Bill which will be the world's largest social protection measure against hunger.

I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it.

[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.

Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.

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.

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

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

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.

Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance programs is immoral and shortsighted, and protecting families from hunger improves their health and educational outcomes.

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

I receive food stamps but I have never been on welfare.

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

It's certainly possible to live on a SNAP budget, but it's impossible to feed yourself or your family healthy, nutritious food.

In addition to the massive benefits that SNAP provides to children, it also gives critical benefits for Americans who face substantial obstacles to stable employment.

I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.