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Чарльз Джеймс Хоги — ирландский государственный деятель, премьер-министр .

✵ 16. Сентябрь 1925 – 13. Июнь 2006
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“It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance.”

T. Ryle Dwyer, "Charlie: The political biography of Charles Haughey" (1987), chapter 12.
Originally used at a press conference in 1982 to refer to an incident in which a wanted murderer was arrested in the house of the Attorney-General, but subsequently turned into "Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, unprecedented" and made a catchphrase. Sometimes rendered into the acronym "GUBU".

“I could instance a load of fuckers whose throats I'd cut and push over the nearest cliffs, but there's no percentage in that!”

The Flawed Chieftain http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/niall_stanage/2006/06/the_flawed_chieftain.html (The Guardian 'Comment is Free')
In an interview with Hot Press magazine

“You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.”

BBC Ireland correspondent Leo Enright at the end of Haughey's premiership.
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“The best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.”

On Bertie Ahern, reported in Bertie Ahern http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9804/10/n.ireland.profiles/ahern/ahern.html, CNN World News (1998).

“It's guarded by units of the British army and I can never come up to this border without experiencing deep feelings of anger and resentment.”

Ex-Irish Taoiseach Haughey dies http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3001775.stm (BBC News online)
In a television documentary in the 1980s.