"If you're a poor shopkeeper living in a very impoverished part of Botswana and you're trying to feed your family, trying to buy and sell goods, trying to get medical services for your kids or your employees, and you speak a local language, there's nothing on today's Web that's going to help you,right?

VOA: special.2010.11.08

"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

When you are out in nature it is important to speak softly so as not to frighten the animals away.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

You give someone the cold shoulder when you refuse to speak to them.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

One who has kissed the Blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

If I could choose the language in which I spoke to you, I would choose to speak in Gaelic, the sliding scale,the sussuration of breath, The sound of water beating between us."

VOA: special.2011.05.09

People use a metal call box with a push-to-talk button to connect to a live operator, as Rose Shuman explains: "You just push a button, a big green button, and that will connect you directly to our operators who are sitting in front of computers, and speak your language.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

I believe I can speak for the whole nation when I say this and compliment you for your work.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

After all it's very easy to defend the rights for people to speak who you agree with.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

My family does not speak English, so my culture is more Honduran, you know,than it is American."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

So it really runs to the core question of how independent it can be unless you have independent experts that can speak without fear and favor,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

It's kind of like , where you had side A,side B and you just flipped it over when you wanted to change your mood so to speak.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"Because as I speak to you, Nigeria is not yet fully ready, so I hope some of this will be passed on to Nigeria to force them to be ready in time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

I can speak here from personal experience. If you look me up on Guenter Lewy, Armenian genocide and you look at some of the blogs, you will find a lot of vituperation: you are called a genocide denier on a par with holocaust deniers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18