Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

You don't have to believe the electorate secretly hankers for a dose of Marxist-Leninism to accept that there are deep levels of justified bitterness out there waiting to be tapped.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.