It Has Perhaps Always Been The Case

Experience Shows That Great Enterprises Seldom End With A Tidy And Satisfactory Flourish. Together, We Are Doing Our Best To Re-establish Peace And Civil Order In The Gulf Region, And To Help Those Members Of Civil And Ethnic Minorities Who Continue To Suffer Through No Fault Of Their Own. If We Succeed, Our Military Success Will Have Achieved Its True Objective.

Like All The Best Families, We Have Our Share Of Eccentricities, Of Impetuous And Wayward Youngsters And Of Family Disagreements.

It Has Perhaps Always Been The Case That The Waging Of Peace Is The Hardest Form Of Leadership Of All.

Madam President, Speaking Here In Dublin Castle It Is Impossible To Ignore The Weight Of History, As It Was Yesterday When You And I Laid Wreaths At The Garden Of Remembrance.

Think What We Would Have Missed If We Had Never ... Used A Mobile Phone Or Surfed The Net -- Or, To Be Honest, Listened To Other People Talking About Surfing The Net.