I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
The first rule of government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?