One book critic wrote: "Someday,people are going to wake up and realize that Woody Guthrie and his songs are a national treasure, like the Yellowstone or Yosemite parks."

VOA: special.2010.06.20

It's like drinking whiskey for the first time. Burns your throat going down and that's how some people respond,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

They may have the kids go around measuring doorways,windows, things like that or they are going to use something like money,actual cash."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"It's a lost, because like the president is saying he is going to do something and he never do it, we are waiting for that."

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Instead of going into a hole on the green, discs are thrown into a raised metal basket that looks a bit like a trash bin covered in chains.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

"The local population in and around the cities will see that U.S.forces are in compliance and that we are working with Iraqi forces like we said we were going to,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

"But if you look into the Mekong delta, for example in Vietnam, it has shown the 30-year cycle, but the phase and amplitude is going up and then going up like that."

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

"I think that,because it looks like the top four parties are going to be relatively close to one another, it is going to require a significant amount of political maneuvering, brokering deals, a lot of horse-trading behind closed doors to form a government.

VOA: standard.2010.03.12

"We don't want to rob people of a constitutional right but - I kind of don't like saying this, but I'm going to do it, and that is - to err on the side of protection is the chance sometimes we have to take."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

It's not going to be the kinetics that do it. We are starting to see positive effects like this in Helmand, where the Marines went in in July, in a place called Nawa, where the bazaar is open, as an example, and we see these classic counterinsurgency responses, where security exists,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"When you put that all together it suggest that we are going to need something like 50 percent more, perhaps 100 percent more, food from our existing land and that is a very significant challenge and we believe we need to be thinking seriously about that right away,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21