Quote #6

'We are not going to apologise for any small role we may have played in helping to remove a dictator who made his people suffer for 20 years, carried out horrific acts and didn't care about democracy. He is gone now, and thank God for that.' (May 2003 - speaking of the war in Iraq and the use of Shannon Airport for US military stopovers)

More from Bertie Ahern

  1. 'I've looked up every tree in north Dublin.' (speaking of his investigations into Ray Burke's past)
  2. 'We were always dead against the war.' (December 2003)
  3. 'The reason it's on the rise is because probably the boom times are getting even more boomer.' (commenting on rising inflation in the Irish…
  4. 'To the people of Europe who are joining us today in the European Union I extend the hand of friendship...Today marks the triumph of your d…
  5. 'It's all smokes and daggers'( commenting on the media's apparent conspiracy to discredit him)
  6. '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…
  7. 'I'm one of the last socialists left in Irish politics.' (December, 2004)
  8. 'Throwing white elephants and red herrings at each other.' (a warning he used in the Dail once).

All Bertie Ahern quotes