"I never condemn wrongdoing in any area"

“Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses”

“It was a political donation for my personal use.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide”

“It took Ireland thirty years to become an overnight success.”