To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Secrecy is for losers.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

I have no doubt that there will continue to be bumps, some serious crises indeed in our relationship with China.... Neither membership in the WTO nor normalized trade relations with the United States will magically impose the rule of law on China or institute deep-seeded respect for human rights. But it certainly has potential to advance those purposes.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'