John D.S. Allen: “The voice of the people as expressed through the loya jirga is the highest expression of the Afghan people.”

Your election represents one of the most historic moments in the modern history of your country: the peaceful transition from one elected government to another.

I`ve never seen anything like it, Brian. The alacrity with which the Democratic Party joined behind Joe Biden after he won South Carolina is something that we`ve never seen before.

To embrace this Franciscan spirit as his first decision I think sends a very clear symbol that in terms of returning the church to the sort of core sense of what it's all about, this is a reform.

I agree with getting the big fish and everything, but not when people are dying while we’re doing these investigations.