QUOTES OF THE WEEK

The only reason we can afford to run public services now in Ireland is because two million people in this country every day go to work — we believe they need something back. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar ahead of Budget 2018.

This is a budget of crumbs. People Before Profit’s Richard Boyd Barrett.

We are looking for some urgency from our friends and partners and it’s time, I think, to put a bit of a tiger in the tank and get this thing done. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on the Brexit talks.

The saddest thing that has ever happened to what was Great Britain. Businessman Richard Branson on Brexit.

I think he is, because he is impulsive, he lacks self-control, he is totally consumed with how he is viewed, with how people think of him. He is vindictive. Hillary Clinton when asked if she considered Donald Trump the most dangerous president in US history.

It’s horrific, it’s just mad. I’m just watching it unfold and then tearing myself away from it and realising the horribleness of it all. Actor Colin Farrell on disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein

That’s the most disgusting thing. Everyone knew what Harvey was up to and no one did anything. French actress Lea Seydoux who claimed to have been attacked by Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film producer.

I just can’t do the conforming thing at all in life. I am not the kind of person who lives by other people’s opinions and judgments. It’s important for humanity and I am lucky I can do that. Actress Kate Winslet.

Any of us can measure ourselves against somebody and feel bad if we want to. Actor Dustin Hoffman.

Fat chef with a drum kit. Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White on TV cook and writer Jamie Oliver.

I’ve done some movies that went right in the toilet. Arnold Schwarzenegger admits to some lavatory-themed flaws in his film career.

We have had a woman die. Die on her way back from England for a termination. Professor Fergal Malone, Master of the Rotunda Hospital, while speaking to the Committee on the Eighth Amendment.