Political Quotes

“the world is facing a global food crisis, and it is growing worse by the day. Each morning, we see a new front-page headline reminding us of the urgency of the situation. It threatens not only the health and survival of millions of poor people around the globe, many of them children, but it also threatens the stability of governments in some parts of the world where hunger and food shortages are most acute. It threatens global security and even our own national security. The world food crisis is a human catastrophe. Families are suffering. Mothers and fathers are struggling to feed their children. A recent New York Times story described a father in Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, whose children had recently eaten only two spoonfuls of rice apiece one day and nothing the next day. The father said in this interview: They look at me and say, 'Papa, I'm hungry,' and I have to look away. It is humiliating. It makes you angry. Three-quarters of the people in Haiti live on less than $2 a day, and one in five children is chronically malnourished. People are desperate for nourishment of any kind.”