What's going on now is helping less developed countries like those in East Africa to come up to speed and be prepared for this sort of event,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

So for them to go out and do well like this, uh I think they are going to be eager to go out to Russia in 2014 and do well."

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

"I said to him a year ago, Mr.President your numbers are going to be considerably worse a year from now than they are today because you can not govern in an economy like this without great disaffection,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

"I hope that when people listen to our music, the first thing is that they will have a joyful, emotional reaction, and it will be like coming to the center of the village and everybody is going to get together and dance.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

"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

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