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

Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.

I'm center left, but I think - most things, left on some, center on some, right on very few.

There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not legitimate.

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.