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# Quotes of the week

All time
'There’s no guarantee that the next anarchist isn’t going to do something terrible': The week in quotes
'I think my future plans are things like going to the pub': The week in quotes
'Please sit down and put your flags away': The week in quotes
"Drugs? Yes, but it was obviously a long time ago...": The week in quotes
'This was an accident but it was an accident waiting to happen': The week in quotes
'I’ll give you a kiss, but you must stay calm. Don’t bite!': The week in quotes
'There will be many, in every part of Irish life, who will miss Marian’s voice': The week in quotes
'Say a PRAYER': The week in quotes
'Instead of seeing a tragedy, Boris Johnson saw an opportunity': The week in quotes
'You’re a damn liar, man': The week in quotes
'Frankly, I want a trial': The week in quotes
'I didn’t sweat at the time': The week in quotes
'I don't have an issue with Mr Tayto and I don't think Gay would have either': The week in quotes
'We’re better than this in Ireland': The week in quotes
'So, you won’t take down lies or you will take down lies?': The week in quotes
‘I am happy about the deal but sad about Brexit’: The week in quotes
‘You really don’t give a f**k’: The week in quotes
'It is not down to the consumption of a kangaroo's testicle': The week in quotes
'This parliament is a dead parliament': The week in quotes
'Darkening your face is always unacceptable - I should never have done it': The week in quotes
'John, is Ireland one of those countries you want to invade?': The week in quotes
'It is of the highest level of urgency that the future of this important building is secured': The week in quotes
'You don’t wake up one day and decide to become a serial killer': The week in quotes
‘I wanted them to know who Liam was’: The week in quotes
'Right, cab’s outside, you sure you are going to manage without me?': The week in quotes
'If you shut down our parliament, we shut down the streets': The week in quotes
'They call him Britain Trump': The week in quotes
'Why don't they go back?': The week in quotes
'Your message is excluding people - you’re excluding me': The week in quotes
'The deputy reminds me of one of those parish priests': The week in quotes
'I have a thing where I make models of buses': The week in quotes
There's never been a time in the history of our country where somebody was so mistreated as I have been': The week in quotes
'Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity - time': The week in quotes
'This story reveals an insensitivity at the heart of the State': The week in quotes
'You can stick your co-living up your arse': The week in quotes
'I will shortly leave the job that it has been the honour of my life to hold': The week in quotes
'News flash morons - I’m not coming back': The week in quotes
'We’d planned a life together and some idiot with a gun took that away': The week in quotes
'Where's the beef ya vegan?': The week in quotes
'I find it hard to believe that evidence has simply vanished': The week in quotes