I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dáil Éireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

We were always dead against the war.

Get addicted to peace, talk about it all day and may be all night. Drink it, live it and love it. It will change the world.

Winning her heart again meant more than any championship.

Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public uses of private resources.

So far we have done too much of 'spatial engineering'. The real thing is 'non-spatial engineering'.

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.