When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.