Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

Politics is about maintaining a framework for ordered liberty so that people can live in the neighborhoods and the communities that they live in.

My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.