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.

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.

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.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

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.

There can be no effective solution of the Indian food problem that does not include population control.

The best way to feed the world in 50 years is population control

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.

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.

The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no more hunger.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

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.

You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

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.

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.

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?