Irish Politics Quotes

#1. Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved.

Tana French

#2. The gun is not out of Irish politics.

Ian Paisley

#3. The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives until there is peace in Ireland.

Kevin Toolis

#4. I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Mary Robinson

#5. Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker.

Rashers Tierney

#6. Most climatologists agree that, at best, global warming is a theory about future climactic conditions and cannot be proven based upon the historic record.

Mike Pence

#7. I never really cared about what I looked like.

Gemma Ward

#8. Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.

George Lucas

#9. Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.

John Logan

#10. I'm more concerned about helping humanity through my art

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#11. Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913)

W.B.Yeats

#12. To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

John Barton

#13. Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

Oliver St. John

#14. He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#15. If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

James Joyce

#16. My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.

Martin Donovan

#17. Fookin' Irish, they're a race of political masochists, they love their fookin' chiefs and princes an' a strong hand belting. It's like the man said in the play, Abair and focal republic i nGaoluinn?

Gwyneth Jones

#18. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}

Richard Mc Sweeney

#19. Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#20. Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. ... We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.

Joan D. Chittister

#21. Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living.

Katelin LaMontagne

#22. Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

Marta Kristen