"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

---Charles Dickens

"I always strongly believed that there was no way a member of a government should finance anything he was doing in that respect."

---Albert Reynolds on Bertie Ahern's receipt of monies while a Minister in Reynolds government

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

---Winston Churchill