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

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 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.

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

We see death constantly on film.

Nothing's about taking risks as much as doing stuff that other people haven't done before. Just like in racing, it's not about taking risks but trying to figure out how to be faster.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.