The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.