"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

The effort has been to squeeze the Taliban out of certain areas and the challenge now is to hold those areas and maintain dominance of those areas that is surely what the whole operation has been, has been all about,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"I think the Republicans, if they end up winning both and I don't know that they will I'm sure that they will crow that there is a whole new day dawning and that there has been a rejection of Obamaism and all that,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23