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When people are healthy and not hungry, they are stronger workers building a robust economy.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.

If the country's poorer, it's got less money.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.