"We also owe it to every single one of them to ask the difficult questions about what we are doing in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

and we are working with the settlement community to try to ease the pain involved because we know it is difficult for them,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

"This is at a time when we are working to relaunch negotiations and we believe that these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"As long as Gilad Shalit is there it is going to be very difficult for any Israeli government to suddenly say ok, we are going to change our policy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The U.S.will need to put some pressure on India to make sure that India is helpful in every regard, because we are going to rely a lot on Pakistan to do a lot of heavy lifting and difficult work,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06