"We are not asking anyone to achieve full normalization at this time, we recognize that that will come further down the road in this process."

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"We are not changing our strategy, our strategy remains to achieve the goal of disrupting,dismantling and defeating al Qaida and its extremist allies, and denying them safe haven and the capacity to strike us here in London, or New York or anywhere else,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

"This will ensure,not only, that those who receive artemisinin-combination medicines really have malaria, but will also allow health care workers to exclude malaria and look for other causes of fever in those who do not have malaria" "It will take some time to achieve the goal of universal diagnostic testing for malaria But,in the end, it will be worth it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09