“I never condemn wrongdoing in any area”

—  Bertie Ahern

22 February, 2006 in the Dáil (Ahern corrected his slip, above, TO "condone" during the same statement.) Leaders' Questions http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2006/02/22/member5.asp Oireachtas Debates 2006-02-22.

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Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland 1951

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