Political Quotes

“I thank the majority leader. I will resume my comments about food security. As I mentioned earlier, across the world now, we not only have 276 million people who now face acute food insecurity--as I said, meaning that they are in immediate danger of not being able to find their next meal--but what is ahead is an exacerbation of that problem. Another 47 million people will likely face these same dangers by the end of this year. So a food security problem, which was a substantial problem before the pandemic, made ever worse by the pandemic, has gotten much worse because of the war in Ukraine--all caused by an attack on a sovereign country by a brutal dictator, Mr. Putin. So this is one of the many reasons why this war in Ukraine--or why all of us, I should say, across the free world have a stake in what happens in Ukraine. I wanted to also highlight what the United States is doing in the midst of this terrible food insecurity crisis. We can't afford to forget and should not forget about the tens of millions who are struggling to survive as a result of this invasion. To feed all of those in need, the World Food Programme, which does such good work all across the globe--goes into conflict zones to provide food to people--that program estimates it will take more than $18 billion. The United States must not share this burden alone, but if we don't lead the way, no one will. That is true in so many instances.…”