He wants Washington to come up with a solution. "I think that we and many others really want meaningful reform.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

"But he seems to say well at least we will leave this on the table, I would think maybe as a bargaining tool.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

"And lastly,I think he will answer many of the big questions about how we move forward on health care reform, and what he considers reform to truly be."

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

"His health,course,he's been ill, but I think we will agree that he was very healthy, very energetic and very clear-thinking, and he was very engaging and his wife was very congenial,hospitable.

VOA: standard.2009.04.07

"I don't think I would say he is free of cancer. I would say that he is in what we call a solid partial remission which means that the majority of the cancer cells have disappeared,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"I think we have got to pay a wonderful tribute to a man to whom we owe all of this, he is in Johannesburg and if we make a loud enough noise he will hear us and so we say, halala Nelson Mandela."

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

"Maybe it would be nice if he (Obama) sees that he is working for the people, and he sees that the people are so drastically against a lot of his policies that maybe he might re-think it and say, 'Let's see what we can all work out together."

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, 'oh,we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma,'" Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03