I listened to an NPR story from the archives online. It was taken from Friday, May 2nd's "Morning Edition." The title was "Pakistan holds peace talks with tribal leaders."
In this piece, quotes were used to used to show both sides of the story. The reporter quoted a tribal leader on his position on the matter, and a pair of local (Pakistani) political experts was quoted to provide a reasonable third-party perspective to the listener.
The quote from the tribal leader wasn't exceptionally elaborate, it was more of an opinion. The political analysts gave elaborate, thoughtful quotes. Another political leader, from the other side of the conflict was simply quoted as saying "They need to back off" regarding the U.S.'s possible involvement.
The quotes were used to get the listener caught up on what was going on if they didn't already know. They weren't especially descriptive, but a couple were well spoken, and well thought out.
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