Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?

The establishment of the Republican Party, which I've been watching all my life. They always seem to win. I mean, there was the exception, of course, with Goldwater back in '64, which turned out to be a catastrophe. But it always seems that the Mitt Romneys and the East Coast types always end up winning the fights.

Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.