Bertie Ahern
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.Collection: Suicide
I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.Collection: Areas
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.Collection: Hair
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.Collection: Cabinets
Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinctionCollection: Office
The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.Collection: Integrity
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.Collection: Years
We were always dead against the war.Collection: War