For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think that was ill-advised. I think we will work again, because he has played a pivotal role in all of this process.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.

eight good years for Ireland.

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.