Sit down if you want to. I didn't know who I might meet or what they might ask.

VOA: standard.other

One man wanted to know if California could get its hands on money from the president's stimulus package turned down by other states.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

"When we were watching the news, it seemed really bad,you know, like most of the hospitals went down and we need to give them food,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

About 4,000 - year-old corals? We don't know how much oil is down there."

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

"Those who know the history of Michael Jackson will know that when he was younger he had pimples on his face, and people were somehow talking down on him and that affected him so deeply,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

"I kept hoisting mine up, but when you've got Christmas hams like mine,mate, the other boys tended to say 'pull your skirt back down again.' That's when you know what the tone of the movie is.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"We know that surface use of dispersants decreases the environmental risk to shorelines and organisms at the surface and we know that dispersants break down over weeks rather than remaining for several years as untreated oil might."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18