British Foreign Secretary David Miliband stressed that nice words alone would not do, but real substance must come out of the meeting.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

All of the men say they never intended to bring down any planes, but rather they wanted to unleash a series of harmless stunt explosions on famous landmarks here to in their words, "expose the failings of Western foreign policy."

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Saying President Obama has offered Iran every opportunity for constructive diplomatic dialogue on its nuclear program, Senate Democratic Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry said more robust sanctions are in his words the only way to dramatically increase the economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran from the outside and help leverage pressure on the regime from its own population which wants a different relationship with the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25