I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon,or Socrates,or Solomon.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

"I don't care," he said. "I am the only person who can tell you if your wine man has cheated you.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

He often has a special plan or answer to a problem that he can use if he needs it.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

He said he has ordered a report in thirty days on what,if any, additional safety measures and technologies should be required to prevent future spills.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

He says even if people have a healthy body weight, sitting for long periods of time still has an unhealthy influence on blood sugar and blood fats.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

"The Supreme Court has said, for example, if Albert Einstein determined that E = mc squared -- which he did -- he never would have been able to get a patent on that.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

"If you get a doctor who is away in the village and has come across a case he or she thinks is beyond him or her, why cannot that doctor be able to link up easily with a senior doctor in Korle Bu to get advice on it?

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The Arab League's secretary general, Amr Moussa,has said President Bashir will not be arrested if he attends the summit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

But obviously if he did not get the 50 percent in the first round then there has to be a second round."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Khamenei asked Mr.Obama if what he called America's "hostility" towards the Iranian nation has really changed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada says he has ordered the interception of any dangerous debris, if anything goes wrong with North Korea's planned rocket launch.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-il is reported to have told Mr.Wen that he would return to the six party nuclear disarmament negotiations but only if North Korea has one-on-one talks with the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

As voters in the northern half of the island, known as the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus,go to the polls, its leader Mehmet Ali Talat has warned if he is defeated the current United Nations sponsored reunification talks will grind to a halt.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"And like Lyndon Johnson he has this really ominous problem, which is if you escalate in Afghanistan and we end up in that swamp that will over time be a kind of constant drain on support and enthusiasm among young people, among minorities,among liberals, among progressives and it will really sap the president's ability to continue to energize this broad agenda,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.29