QUOTES OF THE WEEK
Anyone who heads up a government, heads up a football team, needs to know that everyone on that team is going to be fully behind your programme. Incoming Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he plans to appoint only ministers he can ‘trust’ in what is being viewed as a warning to Simon Harris.
Our members have not been trained. There is a deficiency in our training. I’m not sure of our capability to deal with a terrorist attack. Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors president Antoinette Cunningham has concerns about Garda resources.
People have done a lot more for their country than break their legs. They’ve died for their country so we want our lads to put their bodies on the line and give it everything they have got. Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane sounds the battle cry ahead of today’s crunch World Cup qualifier against Austria at the Aviva Stadium.
It’s my judgment that I was fired because of the Russia investigation. I was fired in some way to change, or the endeavour was to change, the way the Russia investigation was being conducted. That is a very big deal, and not just because it involves me. Former FBI director James Comey, accusing the White House of spreading “lies plain and simple”.
In politics you do get lied to quite a lot and there does seem to be a certain degree of comfort with this lie. We get comfortable with conmen and, let’s face it, politicians are just businessmen working for bigger businessmen, and if you don’t have a lot of money, you are not being represented. The fact there are all these people who think our president is representing the common man, I mean, come on, give me a break. Actor Woody Harrelson.
It was a Rolls-Royce at the beginning and a clapped-out Robin Reliant at the end. Tory Nigel Evans on the Conservatives’ general election campaign in Britain.
We shouldn’t pretend that this is a famous victory. It is good as far as it’s gone but it’s not going to be good enough. British Labour MP Chris Leslie, saying that his party had missed an open goal.
It’s far too naughty to say. British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s on the naughtiest thing he has done.
I’m not a woman, so I don’t have bad days. Russian President Vladimir Putin.
They say a benefit of getting old is wisdom. But I am not wiser. TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough, now in his 90s.
It’s a case of designer genes, isn’t it? Imagine what better genes you could have than George Clooney and Amal, and this is the best co-production they’ve ever done. Writer Kathy Lette on the celebrity couple’s arrival of twins.
I have nothing to hide, but the people I care about I protect like a lioness. Actress Annabelle Wallis.