I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.