President Obama said there is no guarantee that all the steps agreed to at the meeting will work,but: "I think we applied the right medicine.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

"I think we have as individuals the right to follow the same policy or to adopt the same way of thinking."

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

"I don't think there's a good reason to close schools in Ethiopia right now. There's every reason in every country to wash your hands.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

"Most people think they have a right to freedom of speech.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

"We have a bad economy right now, "I think that of the drivers is the bioscience industry, which is helping to build new enterprises and fill new jobs."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Hyun adds,the North Korean leader also has to think about possible power succession, whether it happens right away or some time later- that is another reason to reinforce his power base.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

"I think we're going to see a lot of those issues right now," "We're going to see parents not knowing where their kids are and kids not knowing where their parents are."

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

"I think the counter-insurgency plan is the right way to go. And the way to make it effective, I believe,is to have a much larger, much quicker Afghan army, and a much better-equipped Afghan Army,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

"At least the question that should be put to Congress is not about troop levels and I do not think Congress right now would be very receptive, the majority of Congress, to a request for more troops,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

He describes his reaction to the arrests. "Happy because I think the parents and the community took the right actions but sad because members of the Muslim community, kids that I might have crossed paths with at some time, got into that false ideology,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

"I think in the long run what this does is to contribute to what seems to be occurring right now and that is the retrenchment of the Republican Party, opting for purity of ideological beliefs rather than a broad-based appeal to the general public."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"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