"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been and this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

So,when we went for our annual check-up, I asked the doctor if I was right.

VOA: special.2010.08.18

When we have both our feet firmly on the ground, and when we are down to earth we do not have our noses in the air.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The Captain stayed at our house when the big storm hit in nineteen forty-two.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

We were smoking our pipes and talking when the door of his apartment opened.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

"At a time when the global population is growing, our global climate is changing.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The day will come when the politicians will do the right thing for our people out of political necessity and not out of charity or idealism."

VOA: special.2009.09.06

"Like the other immigrant groups, the day will come when we win the economic and political rewards which are in keeping with our numbers in society.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

"Because they have meaning, because these are gifts that help people, folks in America and beyond, when they buy our beads they feel a sense of generosity.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

"When my bull wins, it is as if our Korean team has just won a medal in a world competition."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

"Often the victims of human trafficking are not aware when they cross our borders that they are about to be enslaved."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

We've got to realize that, because what happens when we're doing this to our food, we destroy essential vitamins."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23