"What we are trying to do is make sure the wrong people don't get their hands on guns."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

I will give you all development and all you have to do is every once in five years make sure you come and vote for me, and this thing will go on,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

The current chair of the Senate Judiciary panel - Democrat Patrick Leahy - says he will do all he can to make sure a new justice is confirmed by the time the Supreme Court reconvenes on October 5.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

The U.S.will need to put some pressure on India to make sure that India is helpful in every regard, because we are going to rely a lot on Pakistan to do a lot of heavy lifting and difficult work,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

"What we hear is that the kind of legally binding agreement that we,for instance, did inside the European Union, will probably not be possible since some of the countries like the United States say we do not have the support in our congress to make a ratification on an international agreement,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"It has become increasingly clear that Tony Blair misled parliament on more than one occasion and I think that MPs were invited to make their own judgment on the merits of the case for war and they were entitled to do so on the truth and it looks very much as though that the truth was withheld from parliament and many MPs may well have made a different decision if they had had the full unvarnished truth,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.13