I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scratch at home.

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

I couldn't believe, I felt as if, like I said, I was going to drap deed y'knaw't a mean?

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.