Bill Kristol Quotes

Poor young children and the elderly must be fed at public expense.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

They [the people] are offered the Constitution. But the people can't eat the Constitution.

No one in the country is actually starving.

Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread? It is of value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.

Just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God’s children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and be given a chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they're the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

A hungry man is not a free man.

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

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

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.