45 Quotes by Bertie Ahern

Obviously we had wished to be able to present the proposals in the context of full agreement. (But) we are on the brink of an accommodation that would have been regarded as impossible not that long ago.

I would be a disaster, to put it at its mildest, if any of the institutions were to slide. I think people need to think very, very hard,

If they don't, we will intensify every single effort that I can physically and possibly do legislatively, and with the security forces, to break these organizations,

The people on whose behalf you claim to act have spoken. Your ways are the ways of the past,

There are so many differences in our policies I'd hardly get through five days.

It is a momentous day for the people of these islands, north and south.

President Bush is very much aware of the abhorrence that the people of Ireland and of Europe felt at the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by coalition forces,

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.

It is extremely difficult, there is no hiding that fact.