11 Quotes by William Keeler

we're hopeful the governor will hear our plea and act in a way that shows the quality of mercy.

There are two people -- my mother and Pope John Paul II -- that will always stay vividly in my mind,

I am confident that, by now, you understand many of the consequences that spring from an invitation having been extended to former Mayor Giuliani,

He grew up in a town that was probably 30 percent Jewish, ... He came back to his hometown after the war and found that his schoolmates and his friends were no more.

I take this occasion to express publicly my apologies to all who have been victims and, in a very special way, to Mr. Stokes who is suffering, has suffered intensely because of the difficulty in which he now finds himself and which we find ourselves, ... I express my sympathy and to his family members, to all who suffered, because of what has been transpiring.

These years have been years of blessings, but also of learning, and there have been crosses, I don't deny that for an instant, ... But I say that in all of this, the joy and the consolation of the priestly ministry has exceeded any cross that came my way.

One cardinal told me while he was listening to the votes being counted, he said three rosaries. And I said two, and the third said, 'Well I prayed mine with greater piety, and it was just one.'

As a student of history, I'm very happy to be in a place where our history is lifted up so much,

acknowledges the right of legitimate government to resort to the death penalty, but it challenges the appropriateness of doing so in a society now capable of defending the public order and ensuring the public's safety.