Michael D. Higgins Quotes
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 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.