Donna Brazile Quotes

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

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

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

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

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

The great network of social insurance programs established by President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, President Harry Truman’s Fair Deal, President John F. Kennedy’s Great Society, and President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and defended by President Bill Clinton, sharply limits the amount of poverty a downturn [in the economy] can cause.

Food stamps are an investment in our future.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

The Obama economy has led to more women dependent on government programs including food stamps.

I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

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

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

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

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.