At four and a half months, Finn is not talking, but he definitely responds to what his mother says.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"You may say that you're not touching the patient, you're not talking to the patient, but it's all the more better.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"It is not where it needs to be. But people are no longer talking about the financial system falling off a cliff.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

So I am not just talking about agreement in principle but concrete results regarding spending and solidarity,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

"Not just in terms of meeting the heads of government every year for a few minutes but in terms of talking 'nuts and bolts' with senior officials,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

"I am not against him talking to Chavez,". "But I think he ought to talk to Chavez in a cold and distant way because Chavez openly, constantly attacks the United States."

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

No,it's not going to be that. But it does need to basically provide the common talking points so that allied leaders, allied presidents and prime ministers, have on one sheet of paper,one page, a set of common talking points that they can speak from to their people to explain why the alliance matters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

"President Obama visited our area this week, and it was my hope that he would listen,really listen, to what the people are saying, I have been in Congress 16 months, but it does not take that long to figure out that Washington does more talking than listening."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

"We're talking about the livelihoods of millions of people but we're also talking about a huge potential resource of hydropower which can not only provide foreign revenues to the countries, but can those revenues can then be used to finance other development programs and help countries meet their targets on poverty alleviation and millenium development goals,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.11