"We cannot have a militarized model of diplomacy and development and expect to be successful in making our case on all these other issues that we engage with governments on."

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Barack Obama in his decision-making is like a lawyer dissecting a case.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

In a speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama referred to the Gulf oil spill in making the case that it is time, as he put it, to "aggressively accelerate the nation's transition to a clean energy economy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14