“I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.”

“I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.”

“In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.”

“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”

“Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.”

“I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.”

“For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.”

“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.”

“When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.”