"You know, the judge sentenced me here, so my first thoughts were kinda, you know,uh,this is kinda, Shakespeare's not my thing.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

"Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam."

VOA: special.2009.04.11

KENNY CHESNEY: "Nashville helped shape me as an artist and as a person and my love for this city is beyond words.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

"Life is not worth living while this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

We went down to depth. I'm driving the submarine and I said 'Wow,this is for me.'

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Soon after Call and Caroline were married, the Captain said to me, "This is hard for you,isn't it?What is it you really want to do?"

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Which is a way of saying it is time for me to finish this program.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

I did as my friend asked me to do and this story is the result.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

I'm a widow and so this is a fun time for me."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

In the beginning, I wanted hits and all that, but what drives me now is what this music means to people."

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

"Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

"This is a very native, very pure thing, which,especially for me, I have a connection to this.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05