David Beasley: “I think the United States now has the moral authority to demand of the other nations around the world to do more.”

Effective humanitarian assistance and development programs save not just money but save lives, and it is in the national security interests of the American people and the Europeans.

I am doing this because it is the right thing to do.

If we are able to feed 200 million people, that means that we can actually cut hunger in Africa by 80 percent.

Had it not been for the United States, the taxpayers of this country, we would have had mass famine.