"It would really be a mistake, and I am sure the United States would not go in this direction, to give Hamas that authority on its own."

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

"We want to reintegrate those people who are today perhaps part of the insurgency but prepared to abandon violence and prepared to join the political process and we want to ensure that the Afghan government is free of corruption and therefore able to be a strong authority against any Taliban insurgency in the country."

VOA: standard.2009.11.10