Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

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

I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as having been there and made a fuss. This doesn't mean I don't believe in participatory democracy.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll have to explain what the political constraints were and why it didn't happen earlier.

I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.