If I fail,no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes,' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'" She made these comments in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

"Don't keep them away from something that can change their lives and give them a new vision and give their parents a new vision of them, just because they don't want someone in the community to say, 'oh,your child is special."

VOA: special.2009.08.23

"A player who hasn't been playing for very long, I try to keep them next to the section player, or leader as we call it, that has been playing a while so they can always ask questions say, 'Hey,I don't know what that means.'" Matt is now in college, studying music education.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

I can't believe it, I don't believe it. Whatever they want to say, it's hogwash,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

But many analysts also say that may be a temporary situation, because they don't expect the measure to be taken up by the full House of Representatives.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Our class,in fact, is just before lunch time, and I'm happy to say that when they do my class, they don't need lunch any more because they eat what they make."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"As I like to say it, the Pops is the orchestra for people who don't know they like orchestras" Keith Lockhart,who's been conducting the Boston Pops for the past 16 years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Obama administration officials said they don't want to get involved in verbal sparring with North Korea but they did call its latest threats provocative and say Pyongyang stands only to further isolate itself from the world community if it follows through with them.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19