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 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.

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.

A flower blooms to reveal her beauty just to express her gratitude for all the life, love, and light.

Every new morning brings new sunshine, new joy and new hope.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Life lessons are well-learned through trails.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

American influence is not what it used to be.

I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

I look spooky but I’m really nice.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.