I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

Time is the enemy of freedom.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

If you look after yourself, keep yourself healthy and have good sparring, there shouldn't be any issues regarding ring rust.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.