Brent McClendon, Executive Vice President, he says taking steps to assure legal trade makes good sense for the environment and for business "By doing more trade, you are doing in the forest.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

"Obviously,it just makes good sense, if you only are looking at the finances of this to invest more in the Afghan National Army and to have the Afghan police and army defending their own country,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Wang Tao,a chief economist with UBS in China, "The timing I think at the moment seems pretty good in a sense that China's economy is pretty strong and global recovery is pretty clear, despite all the uncertainties related to the European debt crisis."

VOA: standard.2010.06.21