"The indigenous people of these islands,the English, the Scots the Irish and the Welsh" "The whites" "The color is irrelevant it's the people who have been here overwhelmingly for the last we are the aborigines here."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"We are prepared to go to Nigeria. We have been talking about Nigeria since two years ago when I came over here,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Burns acknowledged to reporters here that measures have been included in the legislation to ensure that the development money is properly used "for the purposes intended."

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"But I just have to say pretty bluntly here: We've been there before."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"Some people have had these for 15 or 20 years and never been able to get one to bloom, so we are really lucky here to have one."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Here in Juarez, people with flu-like symptoms have formed long lines outside of some clinics and hospitals, even though there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu here.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

"I know of few,if any,mature democracies in the world where faced with the threat of violence and violence itself that turnout for the voters would have been higher than it was here Thursday,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

"The scene here at the bottom of the hill where hundreds of houses have been destroyed by a landslide caused by the earthquake, the scene is one of rescue, it's just pure rescue effort that seems devoid of emotion,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The first video question came from a woman in the southern state of Georgia: "When can we expect the jobs that have been outsourced to other countries to come back and be made available to the unemployed workers here in the United States,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Others fear some detainees could be released. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky: "Americans don't want some of the most dangerous men alive coming here or released overseas where they can return to the fight, as many other detainees who have been released from Guantanamo already have,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

"Sixty percent." "Can we extrapolate from that, if there's 90 or even 85 percent of the folks that are on this chart here, that have not been polygraphed that, maybe 60 percent of them might not pass the polygraph if they took the test?" "We and others have done that analysis,senator, and have reached the same conclusion."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11