Leo Varadkar Quotes
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I am a gay man. It's not a secret, but not something that everyone would necessarily know.
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I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.
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What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that.
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I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.
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It's fair to say that the policy and character of my government would be, or the government which I lead, would be very different to that of President Trump.
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I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.
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People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of things are happening quickly and people are caught up in the heat of the moment, they may have a recollection that isn't exactly as things happened.
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It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.
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I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.
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There are a lot of people who want to retain the Eighth Amendment - I don't agree with that view myself - there are others who want to remove it, but when you ask them what that means, they aren't able to tell you.
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I'd never be overly confident about anything.
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What I am interested in are the philosophies of the future. That's what drives me.
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I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.
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I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.
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We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.
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I decided early on to be honest and trust people with the truth.
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Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there is one standard deviation or two standard deviations.
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I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to do that if the U.K. stays within the Customs Union and the Single Market, because that would take away the need for any special arrangement, or bespoke solution, for Northern Ireland.
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I don't think you can make America great again by trying to go back to an old coal-based manufacturing economy that doesn't really exist anymore.
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Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
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There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.
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My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.
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Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.
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I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.