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Silly season and big new bazooka: The week in quotes

“I tried my best and I didn’t succeed.”

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IT WAS A week in which the Health Minister James Reilly was under pressure but appeared to earn a reprieve of sorts with his reversal of some cuts to the HSE budget.

In the US, Democrats gathered to nominate Barack Obama for the presidency once more while back here a set of reports from the National Board for Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church were damning of some dioceses and religious orders and their handling of child abuse allegations.

All that and more, it’s the week in quotes:

Silly season and big new bazooka: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “Fans of group sex say it’s better than one-on-one because, like in any team, you don’t need to hit the ball all the time.” – Russian president Vladimir Putin offers his views on group sex when asked about the Pussy Riot protesters.

  • Week in quotes

    “If you want a ‘you’re-on-your-own, winner-take-all’ society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility — a we’re-all-in-this-together society — you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.” – Former US president Bill Clinton gives a strong endorsement of the current administration at the Democratic National Convention.

  • Week in quotes

    "All in all, the ECB has presented a big new bazooka which should help buying time.” – A Belgian economist on ECB president Mario Draghi’s announcement of a new bond-buying progamme which buoyed markets this week.

  • Week in quotes

    "I won't say it was professional, what I will say is it was tremendous savagery. And what is certain is that somebody wanted to kill," – French prosecutor Eric Maillaud on the shocking killing of four people in the Alps.

  • Week in quotes

    “Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations and call us in the morning.” – Barack Obama lampoons the economic policies of his rival for the presidency Mitt Romney.

  • Week in quotes

    “A friendship that crossed a boundary line”. – Bishop of Clonfert, John Kirby, explains his view on the actions of two paedophile priests who he moved to a different diocese in the 1990s.

  • Week in quotes

    “Let me repeat again, the silly season is now over and Government gets down to real work.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny has a message for the media and the Irish people as Cabinet held its first meeting since the summer break on Tuesday.

  • Week in quotes

    “All too regrettably, many of the findings of the reviews underline how necessary the introduction of this legislation was.” – Justice Minister Alan Shatter on the latest reports published by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church of Ireland.

  • Week in quotes

    “I tried my best and I didn’t succeed.” – Health Minister James Reilly on criticism he faced for a failure to respond to questions around HSE cuts in a timely manner.

  • Week in quotes

    “No evidence to suggest the Concert Site was unsuitable and Gardai were aware from February 2012 of the identity of the headline act for the concert on the 7th July 2012.” – concert promoter MCD issues a strongly worded defence of its handling of the controversial Swedish House Mafia concert at the Phoenix Park, criticising Gardaí in the process.
  • “Fans of group sex say it’s better than one-on-one because, like in any team, you don’t need to hit the ball all the time.” – Russian president Vladimir Putin offers his views on group sex when asked about the Pussy Riot protesters.
  • “If you want a ‘you’re-on-your-own, winner-take-all’ society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility — a we’re-all-in-this-together society — you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.” – Former US president Bill Clinton gives a strong endorsement of the current administration at the Democratic National Convention.
  • “Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations and call us in the morning.” – Barack Obama lampoons the economic policies of his rival for the presidency Mitt Romney.
  • “A friendship that crossed a boundary line”. – Bishop of Clonfert, John Kirby, explains his view on the actions of two paedophile priests who he moved to a different diocese in the 1990s.
  • “Let me repeat again, the silly season is now over and Government gets down to real work.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny has a message for the media and the Irish people as Cabinet held its first meeting since the summer break on Tuesday.
  • “All too regrettably, many of the findings of the reviews underline how necessary the introduction of this legislation was.” – Justice Minister Alan Shatter on the latest reports published by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church of Ireland.
  • “I tried my best and I didn’t succeed.” – Health Minister James Reilly on criticism he faced for a failure to respond to questions around HSE cuts in a timely manner.
  • “No evidence to suggest the Concert Site was unsuitable and Gardai were aware from February 2012 of the identity of the headline act for the concert on the 7th July 2012.” – concert promoter MCD issues a strongly worded defence of its handling of the controversial Swedish House Mafia concert at the Phoenix Park, criticising Gardaí in the process.

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