"We need you as policymakers to see this as well."
"It is still not that little boy or the millions of people who face hunger today who should be ashamed. I am ashamed. We all should be ashamed."
"There is no one committee that deals with hunger here, and there is no one committee that deals with nutrition here in Congress."
"Like Congressman McGovern said, childhood hunger is completely solvable--completely solvable."
"If we have the political will, we can solve it."
"I want to end my remarks by quoting someone I mentioned at the beginning, and that is Senator Bob Dole, a Republican from Kansas."
"People used to say hunger is a nonpartisan issue, and I really want to stand here today... to say that we all need to be kid-partisan, without question."
"As Chairman McGovern said earlier, you know, this is completely solvable, and the money is there."
"In closing, ending hunger begins with the safety net, but it does not stop there."
"Ending hunger will not happen through hunches, assumptions, and good intentions. Ending hunger will happen with evidence-based programs and policies."
"The time has come for the promise of this Nation to be that no person goes hungry in America--no person, period--not on my watch, never again."