Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I will work within my constitutional remit to defend our interest as I see it to the best of my ability and the people will always be the arbiters of whether I continue in that job. There will be no coercion, threat, implication or ambivalence about where the sovereign will of the people resides. It resides with the people as all true republicans know.

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