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Bertie Ahern
14 quotes
“The reason it's on the rise is because probably the boom times are getting even more boomer.”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: commenting on rising inflation in the Irish economy. – The Irish Times newspaper article, 14 July, 2006.
“I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: commenting on people "talking the economy down", just before the crash. Speech at Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference 2007-07-3.
“Time magazine reported him as speaking of "upsetting the apple tart".”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mr. Popularity Time magazine. 2007-04-26.
“I never condemn wrongdoing in any area”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 February, 2006 in the Dáil (Ahern corrected his slip, above, TO "condone" during the same statement.) Leaders' Questions Oireachtas Debates 2006-02-22.
“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 (born 1951) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking about Ray Burke (who was subsequently jailed for six months for tax evasion) after Burke's resignation. Resignation of Member: Statements. Dáil Éireann - Volume 481, 1997-10-07
“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 (born 1951) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dáil Éireann transcript, December 1996
“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 (born 1951) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dáil Éireann transcript, September 1997
“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 (born 1951) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the Mahon Tribunal on 20 September 2007. Planning Tribunal Transcript planningtribunal.ie. 2007-09-20.
“governments can defer these things for a period and then, as they've previously done, go back and pay it all again. I mean, that's really only playing smokes and daggers with it.”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: refusing to postpone an increase in ministerial salaries, 2007-11-05 (Irish Times 2007-11-06 p.6; Irish Independent 2007-11-06)
“Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining to the Mahon Tribunal on 20 December 2007 why he did not have a bank account in 1993. Planning Tribunal Transcript planningtribunal.ie. 2007-12-20.
“It was a political donation for my personal use.”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 21 February 2008 at the Mahon Tribunal, referring to a £5,000 donation. Irish Times report 2008-02-21. (Subscription required)
“It is not correct, and if I said so, I was not correct — I cannot recall if I said it, but I did not say, or if I did, I did not mean to say it”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Straight answers needed to taxing Bertie questions Irish Independent, 2008-01-31.
“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 (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success.”
Bertie Ahern (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source