Political Quotes

“today a number of Members of Congress are beginning a fast. I am joining my colleague, the gentleman from Ohio, Tony Hall, today in this fast because I think that what he is doing is important and courageous. We are all so caught up in our day-to-day existence of working, paying the bills, trying to be a good husband or wife, being an involved parent, that we forget about some of the real problems in the world. Twenty-four years ago as a newly trained Peace Corps volunteer, I set out to help end hunger in the world. Unfortunately, we still have not accomplished that task. As many as 35,000 people a day are starving to death and not because there is not enough food; farmers, especially American farmers, are doing a marvelous job. It's happening because of political problems and distribution problems. We have the ability to end hunger and we have the resources. We all need to focus on what we can do collectively and individually to end that tragedy.”