Ahern Quotes

Your even-handed support and wise counsel continues to be an invaluable resource to us for our search for lasting peace. - Bertie Ahern

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. - Thomas Traherne

You never know yourself till you know more than your body. - Thomas Traherne

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars. - Thomas Traherne

You bring in freshman and you know they have the talent to do it. On the field, there's not much that distracts them. They have the right focus. - Chris Ahern

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. - John McGahern

Whoever was responsible for this evil deed was certainly no friend of the peace process and no friend of anybody on this island. - Bertie Ahern

Whoever is behind any of the various community violence, anywhere, whether it's republican or loyalist, we're determined to do all we can to de-escalate that and to get on with it. - Bertie Ahern

While we are conscious of the view that further confidence needs to be established, we also know that time alone is not enough: trust will not build itself in the absence of positive engagement by all parties. Everyone in Northern Ireland is aware of the dangers of a political vacuum. - Bertie Ahern