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Jon Voight stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview with "Cigar Aficianado":
"The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’."  
By Jon Greenberg• October 22, 2015
Glenn Grothman stated on February 03, 2022 in Twitter:
"The US has made strides in reducing carbon emissions that other parts of the world have not."
By D.L. Davis• March 11, 2022
Xi Jinping stated on November 12, 2014 in a press conference in Beijing.:
"China has made enormous progress in its human rights. That is a fact recognized by all the people in the world."
By Steve Contorno• November 17, 2014
Jeb Bush stated on June 15, 2015 in his announcement speech at Miami Dade College:
Says Hillary Clinton "insists that when the progressive agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary, those beliefs ‘have to be changed.’ "
By Amy Sherman• June 17, 2015
David Miliband stated on May 17, 2016 in a panel discussion:
"The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.
By Jon Greenberg• May 23, 2016
Gayle Smith stated on March 09, 2016 in a speech on Capitol Hill:
"Over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half."
By Linda Qiu• March 23, 2016
Secure America Now stated on July 04, 2012 in a TV ad:
"For his first interview as president, Barack Obama chose Arab TV for an apology."
By Molly Moorhead• July 12, 2012
Viral image stated on September 25, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Joe Biden calls Donald Trump’s supporters the dregs of society.
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 16, 2020
Jon Huntsman stated on December 12, 2011 in a debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.:
"You look at defense … we're spending more than the rest of the world combined."
By Jake Berry• December 13, 2011
Barack Obama stated on July 08, 2008 in :
"McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil."
By Robert Farley• July 10, 2008
Congressional Leadership Fund stated on September 04, 2018 in A campaign ad:
"Your family" will pay $2,500 "after Kara Eastman eliminates your tax cut."
By Stephen Koff• September 7, 2018
Bill de Blasio stated on June 26, 2019 in comments made during the first Democratic presidential primary debate:
"It matters that we nominate a candidate who saw the destruction wrought by a broken health care system and gave people universal health care. … These things really matter. And these are the things that I've done in New York."
By Emmarie Huetteman• June 27, 2019
Michael Bloomberg stated on August 03, 2014 in comments on CBS' "Face the Nation":
Africa is spending "the highest percentage of their GDP on education of any part of the world."  
By Derek Tsang• August 7, 2014
Rick Scott stated on January 20, 2021 in a statement given to the press:
The Paris Climate Agreement is “bad for America,” because it "does nothing to hold real polluters, like Communist China and India, accountable."
By Jon Greenberg• January 26, 2021
Kevin de León stated on July 25, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention.:
California has "the sixth largest economy on planet Earth."
By Chris Nichols• July 27, 2016
Donald Trump stated on August 24, 2015 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":
"We’re the most highly taxed nation in the world."
By Louis Jacobson• August 28, 2015
Ken Paxton stated on June 06, 2014 in a speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention:
"At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugal’s."
By W. Gardner Selby• June 13, 2014
Ben Rhodes stated on November 15, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria."
By Lauren Carroll• November 15, 2015
Bono stated on January 24, 2016 in an interview with the "Irish Times":
"People think AIDS is done -- it’s not done."  
By Jon Greenberg• February 9, 2016
Eugene Robinson stated on December 01, 2009 in a Washington Post column:
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."
By Catharine Richert• December 9, 2009

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Fact-checking USAID chief on global poverty and education

By Jon Greenberg• March 25, 2016

Fact-checking the June 22 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman• June 22, 2014

PunditFact fact-checks the June 22 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman• June 22, 2014

In context: Baldwin's "damn right" statement

By James B. Nelson• October 2, 2012

Gavin Newsom has made progress on some promises, but what about a state homelessness secretary?

By Chris Nichols• April 15, 2019

Fact-checking the 21st International AIDS Conference

By Jon Greenberg• July 17, 2016

Following Perry, we dive into income tax history

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• December 20, 2010

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. How will we know when it is?

By Bill McCarthy• January 13, 2022

Fact-checking claims on Egypt and Israel

By Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan• February 4, 2011

A coronavirus vaccine: Where does it stand?

By Louis Jacobson• July 13, 2020

Rouhani Meter tracks Iran president's campaign promises

By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 12, 2015

Dan Patrick: Planned Parenthood solely kills babies and sells body parts

By W. Gardner Selby• October 23, 2015

Catching up with Van Jones

By Robert Farley, Angie Drobnic Holan• September 8, 2009

Obama's Nobel Prize: More hope than change

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 9, 2009

Events within and beyond Joe Biden’s control stymied progress on COVID-19 in his first year

By Victoria Knight• December 20, 2021

Fact-checking Ron DeSantis in New Hampshire on education, economy and drugs

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• October 15, 2023

A $300 million fact check

By W. Gardner Selby• January 9, 2013

Fact-checking the State of the Union address

By Bill Adair• January 26, 2012

What Bernie Sanders has said about the Democrats over the years

By Louis Jacobson• March 3, 2020

PolitiFact Florida: Our most popular fact-checks of 2012

By Angie Drobnic Holan• December 28, 2012