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Enda Kenny
12 quotes
“Some nigger who died dans la guerre.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Part of a joke told to an audience by Kenny in 2002 about , the assassinated Congolese leader.
“The fact is that I used the word, and no context can excuse it. I failed to exemplify my own standards and those of my party. I apologise for any offence this may have caused, particularly to the Lumumba family.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apology for the above joke, as quoted in "Fury at Kenny 'joke' spreads" (14 September 2002), The Observer
“The incoming government is not going to leave our people in the dark. likes to know what the story is.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During an interview with on on 26 February 2011.
“You could do with a day's work, I'd say.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Enda Kenny To Protester: “You Could Do With A Day’s Work, I’d Say.” Broadsheet, 2012-05-15.
“Generally when people speak to each other they use words.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At a public event in July 2012. Irish Independent
“So I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don't mean Castlebar Mitchels, I mean the whingers that I hear every week.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Enda Kenny hits out at ‘All Ireland champion whingers’ in his constituency of Castlebar TheJournal.ie, 2016-02-21
“If there's anyone out there who still doubts that Ireland is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our ancestors is alive in our time, who still questions our capacity to restore ourselves, reinvent ourselves and prosper, today is your answer.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bejaysus, I wish I didn't have to go back and face what I have to face.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: While at the Irish Embassy in Washington shortly after the 2016 general election. Irish Independent
“Is [assassination] only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whether it's in relation to the sort of music that is played there or not, in any event, it's tragic for the families involved here.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The outstanding organiser who brought Lenin himself to Ireland to see how the National Loan worked.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to Michael Collins at Béal na mBláth in 2012. He later admitted he had got it badly wrong after historians expressed bewilderment at Kenny's claim that Lenin had visited Ireland. As quoted in Irish Independent
“The greatest nation and most powerful nation on Earth.”
Enda Kenny (born 1951) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In reference to the United States, in a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama (March 2015)