EWTN Interview with President George Bush

Zenit has the complete transcript of Raymond Arroyo's interview with President George Bush. There's much of interest there, but here's the opening and closing...

Q Mr. President, this is the first head of state, Pope Benedict the XVI, you will ever greet on a tarmac. I was stunned to learn this. Why are you going and greeting him at an airstrip? Usually the heads of states come here.

THE PRESIDENT: Because he is a really important figure in a lot of ways. One, he speaks for millions. Two, he doesn't come as a politician; he comes as a man of faith. And, three, that I so subscribe to his notion that there are -- there's right and wrong in life, that moral relativism has a danger of undermining the capacity to have more hopeful and free societies, that I want to honor his convictions, as well.

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       Q    Mr. President, final question.

       THE PRESIDENT:  Yes, sir.

       Q    You said, famously, when you looked into Vladimir  Putin's eyes you saw his soul.

   THE  PRESIDENT:  Yes.

     Q    When you look into Benedict XVI's eyes what do you see?

       THE PRESIDENT:  God.

     Q    Good way to end the interview.

       THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, sir.

     Q    Thank you, sir.  My pleasure.

Comments

[Philip Turgati]

Excellant questions and interview. I have forwarded this to many friends.
Your friend in Christ;
Philip