Leo Varadkar Quotes
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My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.
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I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.
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I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.
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We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.
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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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What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health.
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Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.
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I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can't do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I'm buying.
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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 am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.
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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.
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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'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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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.
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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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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.
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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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I don't know why, but I've had an interest and passion for politics.
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One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.
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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.
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Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.
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When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.
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It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.
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There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.