"The North as you know has been engaged in all sort of behavior. There have been ups and downs in that entire progress, the six-party talks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

"There are several problems with this notion of a failed state," "One of them is that somehow in Mexico,all of a sudden, the government has become heavily corrupted by cartels as if there wasn't corruption in the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"I think the Republicans, if they end up winning both and I don't know that they will I'm sure that they will crow that there is a whole new day dawning and that there has been a rejection of Obamaism and all that,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23