Jeff Bridges Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• 35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

  Jeff Bridges

  Country, Children, War

• One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

  Jeff Bridges

  Differences, Knowing, America

• One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

  Jeff Bridges

  Kids, Four, Faces

  "David Axelrod on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2010.

• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

• One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

  Jeff Bridges

  Kids, Issues, Hands

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 10, 2011.

• I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

  Jeff Bridges

  Knowing, Political Will, Creating

• One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

  Jeff Bridges

  Art, America, Childhood

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