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.

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

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 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.

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.

Our time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life

There is an art to Noavek bullshit, " Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.

The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting both!

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.