When they were refurbishing buildings, they had no compunction about taking statues of a predecessor and burying them.

When I came to Harvard I had a specific plan which included overhauling the system here.

[Abbas laid the cornerstone for a new Arafat memorial, even as he acknowledged that his predecessor had no wish for a grandiose building.] He had no dreams of having a palace in Palestine but only to have a grave in Jerusalem, ... God willing, he will be buried in Jerusalem.

When you compare him with his predecessor, who took the Vatican by storm and the world by storm, this is a much more low-key papacy to date.

No. I write down thoughts as they occur to me. You never know when you're going to need a good idea.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.