"When we say Israel must freeze settlement activities, including natural growth, that's not a Palestinian condition;

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Finally, when a situation changes completely, we say that is a whole new ballgame.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Soldiers often say, We GId the place. And when an area looks good, soldiers may say the area is GI. Strangely,though, GI can also mean poor work, a job badly done.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

"At the beginning of the year, it seemed like [the kids would say 'Oh,I'm getting tired, this is too long - when are we going back to school?'

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

"That character piece is the foundation. As we like to say, when you are put in very challenging environments, like the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, or recently in western Iraq.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

"I have to say when we first moved into the neighborhood, Delvin was our daily visitor and the kids looked forward to him coming and he was the first person whose name we knew in a new country, the first American we met really."

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

I know where your mom is. I know where your brother is buried. When people come up and say we know where so and so is it's a signal to us that the reconciliation, the coming together of Hutu, Tutsi kind of business is really in progress and we are really happy with it,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.10

"I do appeal to the candidates and to their campaigns and also to the voters to demonstrate the patience and calm that is required for the ECC to carry out its work in order to make sure that when we look back at the entire election process that we can say that it had the credibility that is required,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.24