"You may be skeptical that this time will be any different. You have every right to be, and nobody would have blamed you if you did not come today,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Joiner expressed optimism that this time would be different.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.02