Joe Higgins Quotes

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This is a challenge to the entire trade union movement in Ireland - a declaration of war on the wages and working conditions of all workers.

Joe Higgins
It is like sending a bunch of marauding foxes that had raided a henhouse back to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to their previous victims.

Joe Higgins
If this conversion was genuine, we would have to go back 2,000 years to find another as rapid and as radical. Saul's embrace of Christianity on the road to Damascus stood the test of time but the Taoiseach's [Bertie Ahern] embrace of socialism on the banks of the Tolka hardly will.

Joe Higgins
We want to see measures to implement taxation justice for ordinary working people. We want an end to the policy of many years now, of huge tax concessions for big corporations and a plethora of stealth taxes on ordinary families and ordinary working people.

Joe Higgins
I only wanted to ask the Tanaiste if he now officially endorses cronyism and patronage in Irish politics.

Joe Higgins
In view of the fact that the Royal Family of Britain is one of the wealthiest families in the world and this country is almost sleeping rough, so to speak, figuratively, would you ask the Queen if she might make a contribution towards her own bed and breakfast costs to assist the unfortunate taxpayers, and go easier on them?

Joe Higgins
Babies also have a civil right not to be kissed by every passing politician.

Joe Higgins
It is outrageous that [the ESB] is oppressing a powerless citizen in this way.

Joe Higgins
Higgins: Is [assassination] only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?
Enda Kenny: I know you are a good Christian man who has your job to do in here from a political point of view. Many of his victims in the twin towers in New York were of Irish descent or directly Irish.

Joe Higgins