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Article: INSIDE THE BELTWAY.(Nation)(Inside The Beltway)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 25, 1997
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MUSTARD?
It was Albert Einstein, not a politico, who observed: "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
Then again, it was John Kenneth Galbraith, the U.S. economist and former ambassador to India, who noted: "More die in the United States of too much food than too little."
Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Indian political and spiritual leader, spoke of food and state: "A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food. To a man with an empty stomach, food is God."
Opined Yuri Chernichenko, founder of the Russian Peasants' ...