"I think it would be incongruous for Iranians to want to go to a celebration like that."

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

"If it could avoid a bloodbath and destruction and displacement, I think that would be a great achievement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.27

Indeed,it's not clear what they have accomplished, but I think that it would be fair to assume that they haven't accomplished a lot."

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

"I do not think that exchanging Russia for Turkmenistan or Ukraine for Turkey, if it was the only step, would be that very smart,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

It would be embarrassing,I think," . "I would be objecting to that because at a certain point security begins to get into your personal life,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"It feel like I'm in a zoo. It's sad because I think it's a beautiful sculpture, and it would be a lot better to see it without the fence in front,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

"Had it not been for the steps that we took with respect to GM and Chrysler, the situation in Michigan, I think it is fair to say, would be far worse."

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

"I think these things can move in parallel. Obviously,it would be easier if these things had come out in a different way, and been conducted without the kind of irregularities that have been identified,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

North Korea's official Rodung Sinmun newspaper described the country as a "proud nuclear power" Monday, and warned it would be a "great mistake for the United States to think it will not be hurt" in the event of military conflict on the peninsula.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

"When there are people that we know who have been involved with Noordin (Top), or have been involved in violence, who have served their sentences and who are about to get released, and who have been visited regularly by fellow prisoners who have been released, you would think it would trigger something that these people are high risks, so there should be a way of designating some kind of special category for more intensive monitoring."

VOA: standard.2010.03.24