Bertie Ahern famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I donâ€™t know how people who engage in that donâ€™t commit suicide.
-- Bertie Ahern

#Suicide #Opportunity #People
We were always dead against the war.
-- Bertie Ahern

#War
Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction
-- Bertie Ahern

#Office #Politician #Prime
I never condone wrongdoing in any area
-- Bertie Ahern

#Wrongdoing
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

#Integrity #Needs #Guarantees
It is quite unacceptable that a member of DÃ¡il Ã‰ireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.
-- Bertie Ahern

#Cabinets #Lifestyle #Ministers
Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses
-- Bertie Ahern

#Hair #Yellow #People
I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.
-- Bertie Ahern

#Areas #Wrongdoing
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.
-- Bertie Ahern

#Years #Intellectual #Want

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Bertie Ahern famous quotes

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