Quote #13
'I never condone wrongdoing in any area' (22 February 2006 in the Dail) (Ahern corrected his slip, above, during the same dialogue.[2])
More from Bertie Ahern
- 'I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.' (22 February 2006 in the Dail)
- Speaking on Ray Burke (who was subsequently jailed for six months for tax evasion) after Burke's resignation; I always found him to be a pr…
- Time reported him as warning his country against 'upsetting the apple tart' of his country's economic success.[2]
- 'The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their offic…
- 'Throwing white elephants and red herrings at each other.' (a warning he used in the Dail once).
- 'It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dail Eireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his pers…
- 'What they were up to in those days were kept for the future. I'm not sure I know how legal it was...but anyway...ha ha ha.' (March 15, 200…
- 'I'm not answering what I got for my Holy Communion money, my Confirmation money, what I got for my birthday, what I got for anything else,…