"We seek to work with this Committee to ensure expeditious and effective implementation of the additional funding, especially the resources directly appropriated to Food for Peace."
"World Vision joins with our partners and strongly opposes these recommendations, which propose eliminating and/or severely cutting effective, life-saving funding that help create a safer and more secu..."
"We owe them a debt of gratitude for their service, not the casual slander we often see in food aid reform debates."
"For the first time in history, the President of the United States is openly calling for the elimination of Food for Peace and McGovern-Dole."
"the potential for job growth over the next decade in the U.S. agribusiness and farm growth is very clear."
"it promotes peace and stability."
"it projects soft power around the world for the United States."
"This is the face of five little girls eating lunch, or breakfast, at a McGovern-Dole program site."
"So the McGovern-Dole Program is a really smart and important program."
"I just have this kind of radical idea that that kind of stuff is good for us."
"It is heartless. It is reckless. It is self-defeating, and it is stupid."
"I tell people all the time that hunger is a political condition. We can eliminate it."