Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.