I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

The churches must realize that when they take a position on a political event that they must accept the rules of the game.