Bertie Ahern

The reason it's on the rise is because probably the boom times are getting even more boomer.

— Bertie Ahern

I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide

— Bertie Ahern

Time magazine reported him as speaking of "upsetting the apple tart".

— Bertie Ahern

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area

— Bertie Ahern

I have always found him to be a proud, honourable man, loyal, true, persevering, principled, caring and committed but tough and a person who lost friends easily. On behalf of the Government but in particular on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party, I thank him for his distinguished years of service to his constituents and his country.

— Bertie Ahern

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody.

— Bertie Ahern

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.

— Bertie Ahern

I continued the arrangement, so whatever was on my mind, and the reason I probably can't give you a better reflection of what I was doing on the 19th of January is because I didn't do it. I am sure there are some mornings you get up and you think I might do this or I might do that and then you don't do them so, its hard to remember.

— Bertie Ahern

That decision will in history be written as the biggest mistake that American administration ever made, because Lehmans was a world investment bank. They had testicles everywhere.

— Bertie Ahern

It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success.

— Bertie Ahern