A year ago,he was campaigning for the presidency on the presumption that Iraq was a big mistake and we needed to focus on Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

"For one thing to be believable we needed to push another story line even further.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

I would have said that China needed us more than we needed them.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"We needed to look at all the avenues to reduce our costs and the number one, of course,is our rent,and I asked the landlord to help me out, which they agreed,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

We needed something, we had to invent it." Over his long naval career, Walsh served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, commanded a submarine and worked as a policy advisor and assistant to the secretary of the Navy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

"We needed rain yesterday,right,". "We needed rain most probably a fortnight ago for our crops to realize their full potential but most probably been 30 percent of our yield potential gone and every day it doesn't rain that will fall quite dramatically from there."

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

"We are able to do these transplants locally. We have got the expertise in this country and the only thing that we needed to do is to publicize and tell them, 'Yes,you do not have to spend all the money and go outside there, leave the comfort of your country and the beloved ones to have the transplants outside there - we can do it here."

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

He said the soil improvements are needed "if we are to reduce poverty and feed growing populations."

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Water is needed for cooling the body on hot days, and when we are working or exercising.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

We have not been as focused as we need to be on all the various steps that are needed in order to deal with Afghanistan."

VOA: special.2009.02.21

"We realized pretty early on that it wasn't going to just be a marketing function, that there also needed to be a legal function involved with it.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

So,first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-- nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

VOA: special.2011.03.17

So,first of all,let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

VOA: special.2011.05.19