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Joe Biden
stated on May 2, 2016 a post on Medium:

Cervical cancer in Africa is "fully preventable with basic education, screening and vaccines."

By Jon Greenberg • May 5, 2016

Michelle Obama
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview posted on Medium:

"Research even shows that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP."

By Jon Greenberg • April 29, 2016

Ban Ki-moon
stated on April 22, 2016 comments:

The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."

By Liepa Zelniene • April 26, 2016

Tim Ziemer
stated on January 20, 2016 an article posted on Medium:

"In Africa, a child dies every minute because of (malaria)."

By Jon Greenberg • April 25, 2016

Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 an interview with a South African journalist:

"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."

By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 23, 2016 remarks at Stanford University:

"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their own neighbors, thanks to an agreement the U.S. negotiated when I was secretary of state."

By Lauren Carroll • March 29, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on March 17, 2016 a news conference:

"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."

By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill:

(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."

By Jon Greenberg • March 24, 2016

Gayle Smith
stated on March 9, 2016 a speech on Capitol Hill:

"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."

By Linda Qiu • March 23, 2016

Bill Maher
stated on February 10, 2016 an essay in The Hollywood Reporter:

"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 22, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 7, 2016 comments on Meet the Press:

"There really isn’t any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders."

By Joshua Gillin • February 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 the Democratic debate in Durham, N.H.:

Says Bernie Sanders advocated putting "Iranian troops into Syria to try and resolve the conflict there. Putting them right on the doorstep of Israel."

By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 4, 2016 a posting on the Clinton website:

"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 19, 2015 a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

Says Bernie Sanders "voted for regime change with respect to Libya."

By Lauren Carroll • December 22, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN:

"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on 'This Week' :

"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."

By Joshua Gillin • December 10, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation":

"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."

By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 a speech at the Citadel:

For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."

By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on November 6, 2015 a Democratic primary forum:

"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."

By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2015 a joint statement with the president of Turkey.:

"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."

By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2015

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