"When unemployment is 9.7 percent, when we are still digging ourselves out of an extraordinary recession, people are going to be frustrated, and they are going to be looking to the party in power to try to fix it.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

"They stress over and over again in domestic propaganda, 'we are not going back to the six party talks.' Now I realize that North Korea has said in the past has said in the past, it ain't coming back, and then it comes back anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.26