"I think the most important thing we can politically is to force the leaders to take seriously the problems we are facing."

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

"I believe that what we are doing is very pro-market. We are dealing with some problems that the market faces today, and we are talking about putting in place in the future things that will help the market work better,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

"Over the last few months, there have been a number of training centers open that are exclusively for members of both the Afghan National Army and the Afghan national police force, and I would say that drug usage and illiteracy are two of the big problems within the security forces that NATO has really made a big priority now.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23