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Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.
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My instinct is to say it as I see it, being a little bit edgy and showing leadership on policy issues.
Leo Varadkar
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I'm not going to tell the American president how to run America, but I think it is important that when friends are speaking to each other that they are able to be very frank in the views that are exchanged, and I certainly will be doing that.
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What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.
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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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I have a good social life.
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I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.
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Whatever happens with Brexit, what I am absolutely convinced will not happen is that free movement of individuals, free movement of people, will not change, North and South without passports.
Leo Varadkar
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I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
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My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.
Leo Varadkar -
I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.
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What I see around the world are movements around people like Macron in France and Trudeau in Canada.
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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.
Leo Varadkar -
If Britain doesn't stay in the Single Market or Customs Union, we are very much in favor of a free trade agreement between the U.K. and Europe. We don't want Britain to be punished for its decision to leave, and it is not in our interests for Britain to be punished because we may be the ones who lose out as much if not more than them.
Leo Varadkar
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I've realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.
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Part of my mission, if I have that opportunity as leader, is to take Sinn Fein on.
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We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
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The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.
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Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.
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It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.
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Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.
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I don't know why, but I've had an interest and passion for politics.
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Enda Kenny has the full support of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.
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Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.
Leo Varadkar