Silly things that politicians say...

j_cal

Hello

I'm compiling a list of riddiculous quotes from irish politicians over the last few years, i.e. things like Michael McDowell comparing of Bruton to Goebbels. If anyone has any please put them up here...

thanks!

The obvious gaffe is Enda's racist joke to a few journos years back.

aonfocaleile

Or Mary O'Rourke's 'worked like blacks' comments...

sovtek

"...stick to the Kebabs..."

JoeB-

Berties' peach trousers... he he he

(More of a fashion statement than a verbal one...)

Sgt. Sensible

An oldie but goldie. - Brian Lenihan's response to a question about the emigration rate.

"We can't all live on a small island."

Cork

Mayo Enda's Hill 16 jibe - Does he realise the number of votes in Dublin?

LostinBlanch

Cork wrote:

Mayo Enda's Hill 16 jibe - Does he realise the number of votes in Dublin?

Glad to see you read the herald :rolleyes:

Cork

LostinBlanch wrote:

Glad to see you read the herald :rolleyes:

No, Enda made his comments in front of the media.

It was on RTE news.

Geoge W would be proud.

Silly things that politicians say...

Why has not George W been mentioned?

A Dub in Glasgo

Silly things that politicians say...

'Of course we will implement our policies once we get into power!'

Victor

aonfocaleile wrote:

Or Mary O'Rourke's 'worked like blacks' comments...

Or "I heard it on the radio when I was in the bath this morning".

Dirk Gently

Cork wrote:

Why has not George W been mentioned?

Too obvious and not worth mentioning????

I think Berties claim that him and Higgins were the last socialists was funny but then again he only done it to wind Higgins up I reckon.

Harney saying that more people paying for private health was a sign of more money in our pockets was a bit silly I thought.

I found enda's speech at the last FG ard feis generally silly from start to finish.

Pet rabbit playing the immigration card was a bit silly too as I thought he was just trying to whip up support from certain sections of the public who might not necessarily be labour minded.

Then there was that Willie O dea pic, though in fairness he was tricked into it. Still he should have known better considering the timing and the hassle over gun crime in the media at that time.

j_cal

"The prospect of Fianna Fail examining the impact of the Maastricht Protocol
on the Irish Constitution is like a chimpanzee with a screwdriver at the
back of a television set."
- Michael McDowell TD

My favourite....Does anyone know if any audio/video exsists for this quote? I think McD said it back in 1992........

Victor

The only reference in the Dail to a chimpanzee was all the way back in 1951.

Such matters of state.

http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0124/D.0124.195102140073.html

...

Mr. Dillon: Thanks be to God, the people can choose anyone they like and if they wish to go daft for five years they have a right to go daft.

Mr. Moran Mr. Moran

Mr. Moran: They have gone daft for three.

Mr. Dillon Mr. Dillon

194

Mr. Dillon: We wish to give credit where credit is necessary to our farmers. I met a deputation recently consisting of Deputy P.D. Lehane, Deputy Corry, Deputy Walsh and some four or five others from the Beet Growers' Association and I discussed the price of beet and other things with them. Amongst the other things we were discussing were how best to increase the output of cereal production. I was emphasising to the deputation how vital it was to do that, and I think it was Deputy Corry who said: “If you want to increase Ymer barley— you have guaranteed a minimum price, not a fixed price, of 16/- a cwt.—but if you want to do the thing rightly, make that more than 16/- and even though none of the barley is sold to you but is used by the farmers themselves, the knowledge that that increased price is ultimately there will encourage it.” Very well. I am a great believer in going half-way to meet somebody whom I believe in good faith and Deputy Corry, I confess, on a deputation, is a very different creature from Deputy Corry in the House. He can be a rational man in a discussion then, but when he comes in here he is like a lepping lunatic. I would like to say in public that, largely as a result of the discussion I had with that deputation, I have directed Grain Importers Limited to announce their preparedness to accept any quantity of Ymer barley grown by farmers, at the end of the harvest, at 20/-. That is only the price of last resort. I hope they will not be able to buy a barrel of it, that every farmer will use it for feeding [194] on his own holding. But I want him to know that, if circumstances do not permit him to use it, he will have a means of getting rid of it for a cash price.

Mr. Moran Mr. Moran

Mr. Moran: Did you tell them anything about the price of eggs?

Mr. Corry Mr. Corry

Mr. Corry: Will you not pay them what you paid to the ****** last year —£26 a ton?

Mr. Dillon Mr. Dillon

Mr. Dillon: I do not know to what the Deputy refers. I know that the Deputy in a room is a reasonable man, but bring him to Leinster House and he is like a lepping lunatic, and if you try to speak to him fairly and deal with him as a civilised human being, the only reply is he bites you. I have learned the lesson well before this, that one might as well try to talk to Deputy Corry as a reasonable man in this House as go up and put one's finger in the cage of the chimpanzee in the Zoo. I would like to give credit where credit is due, and certainly he was one of the members of the deputation who made that suggestion to me and, wisely or foolishly, I am prepared to adopt it, to try to give as much encouragement as I can to individual farmers to grow barley—not for sale, but for use on their own land.

Mr. Moran Mr. Moran

Mr. Moran: Feed it to the hens. Will you tell us about the price of eggs?

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