Leo Varadkar Quotes
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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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My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.
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I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach.
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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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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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If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.
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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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One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.
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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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Unless people who voted for unionist parties are suddenly going to vote for a united Ireland, which I don't believe will happen, a border poll will be defeated.
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Politicians should trust people with the truth. Very often, we don't do that.
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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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Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.
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I do think corporations should pay their tax.
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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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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'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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I have expressed a very strong view that no health minister on their own can turn the health service around.
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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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Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.
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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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There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.
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I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
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The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.