And in 1961, during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, John Kennedy urged people to take an active part in the future: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

"So I am compelled to ask: does it really, really take 100,000 U.S.troops to find Osama bin Laden?

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

- She's right.- You guys are babies. So, I keep thinking that Eric'sgonna ask me to the prom, and then he just doesn't.

VOA: standard.other

We now have to choose a smart way forward so that no one is ever compelledto ask whether we've made a mistake in staying."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

So I ask you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think this through with me.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Nothing is free. So,the reason I make that point is, you cannot ask local elected officials to raise teacher salaries and cut taxes and balance the budget and increase roads.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

And we think, having pieced it together, that it was this guy Madni, but we do not know, so the piece of litigation that we are bringing is to ask the government to tell us who it was,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"Obviously we are all here because we love Ray Harryhausen's work so I said before we do this I'd love to talk to him about it and ask if there was anything he didn't do in the original one that he would have always loved to do."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08