"That's why today, I am please to announce that over the next year, the State Department will be creating Virtual Student Foreign Service Internships to harness the energy of a rising generation of citizen diplomats."

VOA: special.2009.06.05

We don't want to see them take effect next year,". "We want to see them take effect now so they affect compensation process today, not tomorrow."

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"I want to say to you today that we want to transfer district by district to Afghan political and military control starting next year, districts that we believe the Afghans can run themselves,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10