George McGovern Quotes

The right use of food can end hunger.

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

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

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.

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

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

You can drill down on where hunger comes from and figure it out from there, but there absolutely has to be a sense of urgency if you're going to play tennis because you're the team - there's no one for you to rely on but yourself.

Many people think that hunger is unavoidable in any society, even a society that is blessed with great abundance. That is not true. The European community does not have widespread hunger. America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.

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

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

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

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.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

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

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.