QUOTES OF THE WEEK
It was increasingly clear that people in the private sector are not saving enough, or at all. Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty on the Government’s idea that almost all workers will be enrolled in a pension scheme from 2022.
We have time to defuse the pension time bomb, but only if we start now. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on the challenge facing the Government.
Solemn commitments were made at the end of the last year that there would be no hard border on the island of Ireland. No ifs, no buts. For Boris Johnson to have been caught out trying to row back on these commitments demonstrates the dangerous attitude he takes to maintaining peace in Northern Ireland. UK Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Owen Smith.
I think the particular problem around the Irish border is being used politically to drive the whole Brexit argument and effectively to try and frustrate Brexit. UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
I want the broadest and deepest possible agreement — covering more sectors and co-operating more fully than any free trade agreement anywhere in the world today. I believe that is achievable because it is in the EU’s interests as well as ours. UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Brexit.
(Bill) Clinton was my boss. He was the most powerful man on the planet. He was 27 years my senior, with enough life experience to know better. He was, at the time, at the pinnacle of his career, while I was in my first job out of college. None of the above excuses me for my responsibility for what happened. I meet regret every day. Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky on the sexual incident between her and the then president.
With regret I intend to start the NotMe! movement. Enough is enough with the MeToo lot. TV’s Anne Robinson on the sexual harassment furore.
I don’t think it can last. Everybody is after this guy. Michael Wolff, author of the White House expose Fire And Fury, on Donald Trump’s presidency.
They really weren’t exactly Medal of Honour winners. US President Donald Trump criticises the actions of security men during the Florida school massacre.
Isn’t Tony Blackburn gorgeous? The older he gets, the lovelier he gets. Author Jilly Cooper on the 75-year-old veteran DJ.
This is the new way, this is what it should be and how it should stay. Supermodel Naomi Campbell welcoming the fact that two black people were on the cover of GQ magazine.
I think that is the revelation to me, that if you speak Paradise Lost out loud, you’ll recognise what a truly great poem it is. Actor Sir Ian McKellen, who is to play John Milton in a radio adaptation of his work.