Quotes about Predecessors

We must be constantly aware of our responsibility in the Communion of Saints, without giving our honored predecessors the final say or making them an "alternatvie source," independent of scripture itself. When they speak with one voice, we should listen very carefully. They may be wrong. They sometimes are. But we ignore them at our peril.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

When the Holy Father passed away in 2005, Laura, Dad, Bill Clinton, and I flew together to his funeral in Rome. It was the first time an American president had attended the funeral of a pope, let alone brought two of his predecessors.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.