Michael D. Higgins Quotes
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Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
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Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.
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I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.
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The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.
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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
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Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
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I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old and particularly for the Irish abroad. I'm looking forward to it and I think it will be с and wonderful.
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When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
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I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
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We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.