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Conflicts sow misery
Joseph Crowley
"More than 20 million people are at risk of dying from starvation within 6 months in 4 nations."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
The No. 1 source of opium
Ted Yoho
"Afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
Only a tiny sliver goes to foreign governments
Raj Shah
"Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
Even more true in sub-Saharan Africa
Bono
"For every extra year a girl goes to school, her income goes up 12 percent."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
GOP voted to kill the rule
Sherrod Brown
Says ExxonMobil "fought to kill" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
Even more for peacekeeping
Rob Portman
"All of our taxpayers are paying roughly 22% of the U.N. budget."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
Survey says .. he's right!
John Kerry
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Tourists may actually pose a bigger security threat than refugees
Barack Obama
"Refugees are subject to more rigorous screening than the average tourist in the U.S."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Thursday, October 13th, 2016
Poles work
David Miliband
"The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Sunday, June 26th, 2016
"An unmitigated disaster"
David Beckham
"Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Friday, June 17th, 2016
Part of a group effort
Hillary Clinton
"Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
Worker: "They buy and sell us like cattle"
Bernie Sanders
"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Tuesday, April 12th, 2016