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The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.

The fans know and the Cardinals know that I want to be a Cardinal for my whole career. I love this city. The way that this city has embraced me and my family.

My duties are wider than those of the Pope. The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.