"And so decisions that federal agencies are making will have an enormous impact in our ability to wisely adapt to climate change."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"What the federal government does, has a huge impact on where we build in coastal zones, how we farm, what our infrastructure looks like."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"This is having an impact on their health. It is also reducing our ability to bring other kinds of assistance, such as vaccination campaigns against polio,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

And again,it is two-fold: one is,we want to help our colleagues in Mexico, but it does have an impact on safety and security in the United States."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"Its deficiencies,in fact, have had an adverse impact on our security."

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The level of violence is up. I worry a great deal about the overarching impact of the global financial crisis on not just Afghanistan or Pakistan, but all of us in our ability to resource this in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

"The timeline that we've talked about is actually,in a sense that, if I were to use the surge in Iraq, look where we are right now, sort of apply the same kind of timeline to Afghanistan, as best we can tell, and we think that's reasonable, in terms of having the impact, and then being able to thin our forces out and bring them back".

VOA: standard.2009.11.04