Politics & Power Quote by Judith Light

Anger is the right verb here because Judith Light refuses the comforting story that hunger is a tragic accident. Her line yanks starvation out of the realm of charity commercials and into the realm of decisions: budgets, borders, land policy, debt, trade rules, war. “There’s enough food in the world” is a deliberately simple premise, almost childlike in its clarity, and that’s the point. It sets a moral baseline so obvious that any deviation looks like a choice rather than a mystery.

The dash does real work. “It makes me so angry -” reads like someone catching themselves mid-spill, the emotion arriving before the argument. That ordering matters: she’s not performing expertise, she’s modeling moral impatience. Then comes the diagnosis, blunt and unsentimental: “It’s all political.” Not “partly” or “complicated.” The absolutism is strategic. It’s a refusal to let listeners retreat into the fog of “root causes” that conveniently absolve governments, corporations, and voters.

As an actress, Light’s authority isn’t technical; it’s cultural. Celebrities are often expected to soften, to inspire, to fundraise. She does the opposite: she indicts. The subtext is also a challenge to the audience’s preferred identity as helpers. If hunger is political, then the response isn’t just donations; it’s scrutiny, pressure, and complicity. The anger isn’t just feeling - it’s an invitation to stop treating starvation like weather.