"Oh,it's a great festival. We try to come every year and enjoy the hospitality of the folks here."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

We need to make sure that all Americans, not just the folks who happen to work on Wall Street, feel that we are digging ourselves out of the hole,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

"Sixty percent." "Can we extrapolate from that, if there's 90 or even 85 percent of the folks that are on this chart here, that have not been polygraphed that, maybe 60 percent of them might not pass the polygraph if they took the test?" "We and others have done that analysis,senator, and have reached the same conclusion."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

And we're working to eliminate 'food deserts' so that folks have easy and affordable access to the foods they need right in their own neighborhoods."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

But we are going to need you, not just here today, but you're going to have to go home and take some of what you've learned here and teach your families and folks -- the other kids in your schools who haven't had a chance to come, and figure out how you guys can get other people in your lives moving."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

"But we have inputted our folks in there, creating a fire break around the area to try to slow that fire."

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"I am trying to solve the problems that folks here in Ohio and across this country face every day.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

"We are tremendously saddened to have to cancel the tickets of folks who probably went through the lottery system to get those tickets."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Folks who have broken the law, worked here illegally, probably a lot of them, and now seek to compete equally with Americans for jobs."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

"If you granted amnesty to 11 million undocumented workers you are flooding the market with the potential of those folks competing for jobs with Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

And making sure that folks have the opportunity and incentive to save for a home or college, for retirement or a rainy day is essential to that effort,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

But quite frankly,folks, sometimes only a friend can deliver the hardest truth."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

These folks need to stop scaring everybody." Democrats concede the political stakes on the health-care issue are very high, both for the president and for the Democratic majorities in Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Storytelling is something he learned when he was young. "Gathering the children and sitting around the campfire, you would kind of pick them up as you eavesdropped on the older folks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11